Al Sharpton Finally Has Something to Do

I was afraid that Rev. Al Sharpton was losing his edge since he hasn't had much to complain about lately, but a court verdict in New York will surely fix that:

NEW YORK (AP) - Three NYPD detectives have been acquitted of all counts in the 50-shot killing of an unarmed groom-to-be on his wedding day.

Michael Oliver, Gescard Isnora and Marc Cooper were cleared in the 2006 slaying of Sean Bell. Isnora and Oliver faced the most serious charge of manslaughter.

Shouts of "No!" and "Not guilty!" erupted in the crowd outside the courthouse as word of the verdict spread. Some people wept on each other's shoulders.

Justice Arthur Cooperman delivered the verdict in a Queens courtroom packed with spectators, including the victim's fiance and parents. The ruling brings an end to a nearly two-month trial.

Bell was killed outside a seedy strip club in Queens on Nov. 25, 2006 as he was leaving his bachelor party with two friends.

This has all the makings of a Rodney King-like outcome. Watching the live TV from New York it looks like they could be in for a troublesome few days in the Big Apple. I'm sure the race hustlers are scrambling to get to the microphones.

UPDATE: What did I tell you?

NEW YORK (AP) - The fiancee of an unarmed man shot to death by police on his wedding day said Saturday that "the justice system let me down" when the three detectives were acquitted of all charges in his killing.

"April 25, 2008: They killed Sean all over again," Nicole Paultre Bell softly told hundreds of people gathered at the headquarters of the Rev. Al Sharpton's National Action Network. "That's what it felt like to us."

Paultre Bell, in her first public remarks since storming out of a courtroom Friday after the NYPD detectives were cleared in 23-year-old Sean Bell's killing, said she would seek another decision in the case.

"I'm still praying for justice because it's not over," she said.

Joseph Guzman, who was wounded in the barrage of 50 police gunshots outside a Queens strip club on Bell's wedding day in 2006, also spoke for the first time since Friday's verdict to supporters at Sharpton's Harlem offices.

"We've got a long fight," he said. "We're still in it. ... We're going to struggle. We're going to get through."

Later, Bell's family, Guzman and Sharpton joined more than 300 people marching through more than 20 blocks in Harlem. Fifty demonstrators carried white placards bearing numbers for the shots fired at Bell and his friends.

Sharpton lambasted the judge who acquitted the detectives, saying a jury should been seated to decide guilt or innocence. Sharpton has threatened to "shut the city down" with organized civil disobedience.

At least he's busy.