Lawmaker: Bell Protest May Get Unruly
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As a grand jury weighed evidence in the police fatal of Sean Bell by police, members of the New Black Panther Party demonstrated in front of Queens Criminal Court yesterday to demand a murder indictment.
Joining protestors, City Council Member Charles Barron warned that angry community members could become “ungovernable” unless the officers involved in the shooting are found guilty. “We will go all the way fighting for this case. We gotta go all the way because we’re dying,” he said.
Those close to Bell’s family, which has called for peaceful demonstrations, stopped short of denouncing the inflammatory rhetoric yesterday. “Mrs. Bell is looking for a peaceful vigil,” a friend of Bell’s family, David Short, said.
