Hundreds of angry people marched through Harlem on Saturday after the Rev. Al Sharpton promised to "close this city down" to protest the acquittals of three police detectives in the 50-shot barrage that killed a groom on his wedding day and wounded two friends.
"We strategically know how to stop the city so people stand still and realize that you do not have the right to shoot down unarmed, innocent civilians," Sharpton told an overflow crowd of several hundred people at his National Action Network office in the neighborhood. "This city is going to deal with the blood of Sean Bell."
Sharpton was joined by the parents and sister of 23-year-old Sean Bell and a friend of Bell who was wounded in the 2006 shooting outside a Queens strip club.
Also sitting behind Sharpton as he spoke was Nicole Paultre Bell, who took her fiance's name after his death.
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