Hundreds mourn NYPD shooting victim

By VERENA DOBNIK, Associated Press Writer
1 hour, 3 minutes ago

NEW YORK - As a man killed in a hail of police bullets was buried Saturday, several hundred people observed a moment of silence near the strip club where he and two friends were shot after leaving a bachelor party.

The gathering near the strip club Kalua was held in memory of Sean Bell, who died a week ago just hours before he was to have been married. Undercover officers fired a total of 50 times at the car he was driving.

"Fifty shots from the New York cops!" the crowd chanted before the moment of silence.

"We didn't come here to start any violence," said Malik Zulu Shabazz, a black nationalist leader. "The New York police started the violence."

The rally was peaceful, although some in the crowd held signs reading "Death to the pigs" and "Shoot back." It began after the 23-year-old Bell was buried in Port Washington on Long Island.

On Friday, hundreds of tearful mourners paid their respects to Bell in the same church where he was to have married his high school sweetheart and mother of his two children. >>>cont

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