NEW YORK, Nov. 28 (UPI) -- New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg Tuesday traveled to Queens to offer his personal condolences to the family of a man shot to death by police during the weekend.
Sean Bell, 23, was shot to death by police officers who fired 50 rounds at his car as he left a strip club just hours before he was to be married.
Bloomberg offered condolences to Bell's family and later addressed community officials to assure them the matter was being investigated, The New York Times said.
Bloomberg said Monday he found the police action "unacceptable." Two of Bell's friends were also wounded.
"It sounds to me like excessive force was used," Bloomberg said. "I can tell you that it is to me unacceptable or inexplicable how you can have 50-odd shots fired."
The mayor said while all the data wasn't in, he didn't sense there was a racial factor involved, as two of the unidentified officers who fired are black, a third is Hispanic and the remaining two are white.
