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NEW YORK - Witnesses interviewed for a preliminary report on the police shooting of three men — including a groom on his wedding day — did not mention a fourth, possibly armed man who police say may have been present before officers opened fire, a newspaper reported Monday. The New York Times obtained a copy of the police department's 23-page preliminary report of the shooting, a detailed look at what happened on Nov. 25 when Sean Bell, 23, and his two friends were caught in a barrage of 50 bullets after a bachelor party at a strip club in Queens....

This is a must read for anyone interested in cop shootings. The author,Phila Bulletin columnist Michael P. Tremoglie not talks about his own experiences as a cop he has got data about cop shootings in here that takes a flame thrower to the myths and claims by Al Shartpon and company. http://www.theeveningbulletin.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=17567142&BRD=2737&PAG=461&dept_id=574088&rfi=6

New York’s anti-cop forces have roared back to life thanks to a fatal police shooting of an unarmed man a week ago. The press is once again fawning over Al Sharpton, Herbert Daughtry, Charles Barron, and sundry other hate-mongers in and out of city government as they accuse the police of widespread mistreatment of blacks and issue barely veiled threats of riots if they do not get “justice.” The allegation that last weekend’s shooting was racially motivated is preposterous. A group of undercover officers working in a gun- and drug-plagued strip joint in Queens had good reason to believe that...

New York’s anti-cop forces have roared back to life, thanks to a fatal police shooting of an unarmed man a week ago. The press is once again fawning over Al Sharpton, Herbert Daughtry, Charles Barron, and sundry other hate-mongers in and out of city government as they accuse the police of widespread mistreatment of blacks and issue barely veiled threats of riots if they do not get “justice.” The allegation that last weekend’s shooting was racially motivated is preposterous. A group of undercover officers working in a gun- and drug-plagued strip joint in Queens had good reason to believe that...