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(New York Times) — If all had gone according to plan, Nicole Paultre Bell, 26, would not be running for City Council to represent a district in southeast Queens. She would be living in Atlanta with her husband, raising their two young daughters, possibly doing some part-time work at a collection agency, as she had in […]
(NYT) — The $3.25 million settlement that the city announced this week with the estate of Sean Bell, who was shot to death by the police in 2006, serves as a reminder of a ruthless truth about calculating settlements: It is generally cheaper to settle a case in which there was a death than one in […]
NYC Law Department gives "deepest condolences."
(NYT) — Closing a key chapter in one of the most controversial police shootings in recent memory, New York City agreed on Tuesday to pay more than $7 million to settle a federal lawsuit filed by the family and two friends of Sean Bell, a 23-year-old black man who was fatally shot by the police in […]