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NEW YORK, April 25 (UPI) -- The U.S. Justice Department said Friday it would review the killing of Sean Bell, shot to death by New York City police just hours before he was to be married.
The announcement that the FBI and the department's Civil Rights Division would examine the killing came after the three detectives were cleared in the shooting by a state judge.
The FBI and division officials "will conduct an independent review of the facts and circumstances surrounding the ... shooting of Sean Bell and two others that resulted in Mr. Bell's death," a department statement said. The department said it had been monitoring the state's prosecution of the case.
Earlier Friday, State Supreme Court Justice Arthur Cooperman ruled that the three detectives bore no criminal responsibility for Bell's death or the wounding of two of his friends in a hail of police gunfire outside a Jamaica club, The New York Times reported.
The three detectives, two of them black, faced a maximum of 25 years in prison if convicted following their seven-week bench trial.
The incident was said by Bell's supporters to be another in a series of police shootings of unarmed black men and part of a pattern of abuse of police power in the black community.
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