MTTV: Sean Bell

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The Sean Bell shooting incident was a shooting incident that took place in New York City on November 25, 2006 in which an unarmed African-American man was shot and killed and two others wounded by plainclothes New York Police Department detectives (two of whom were themselves African-American) in a hail of 50 bullets.^[1] The incident sparked fierce criticism of the police from the public and drew comparisons to the 1999 killing of Amadou Diallo.^[2] Three of the five detectives involved in the shooting went to trial ^[3] on charges ranging from manslaughter to reckless endangerment, but were found not guilty.^[4]