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We've been waiting 4 weeks for NYC Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly to decide the fate of Detective Gescard Isnora, who has cost the City US$7 Million in a settlement over the shooting of Sean Bell. On Nov. 30th, Deputy Commissioner Martin Karopkin recommended that the detective be removed from the force, but only the commissioner can decide. Meanwhile, there seems to be a tacit statement that the incident was the result of policy and protocol.
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Sean Bell was shot and killed on November 25, 2006 by two plainclothes New York Police Department detectives after leaving his bachelor party at a strip club. The case has been scrutinized publicly since Bell was unarmed at the time. Three of the five detectives involved in the shooting were arrested, and tried by a grand jury, but found not...more
Sean Bell was shot and killed on November 25, 2006 by two plainclothes New York Police Department detectives after leaving his bachelor party at a strip club. The case has been scrutinized publicly since Bell was unarmed at the time. Three of the five detectives involved in the shooting were arrested, and tried by a grand jury, but found not guilty on charges ranging form manslaughter to reckless endangerment on April 26, 2008.
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