Sean Bell

• Did the police know, before hand, that Bell and some of the people with him at "prior contact with" the police? If not, and I think not, it doesn't matter that some of them had records.
• Fifty shots is a hell of a lot of shots. When a person has to reload and continue to fire, you are damn sure they aren't working on training memory, they are working on straight up fear, and IMO, are not in control.
• The New York police department union was able to negotiate a clause that states in police involved shootings, Internal Affairs is not allowed to interview police involved in the shooting for 3 days, if I remember correctly. That's three days. Imagine suspects being caught but allowed to be together for 3 days before they talk to investigators.
• How is it that the prosecutors in these cases suddenly become incompetent?