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"How could an unarmed innocent man die in a hail of 50 bullets and no one be found guilty of anything?" inquired ABC's John Berman (embargoed link) at a courthouse in Queens NY where a trio of undercover New York City detectives was acquitted of murdering Sean Bell in the fall of 2006. Bell, then aged 23, was killed as he was "leaving his bachelor party at a strip club the night before his wedding," Berman reminded us. CBS mentioned the verdict in passing while NBC assigned a reporter to the case. Mike Taibbi explained the acquittal on the ground that the cops "could reasonably have believed that someone in Bell's group had a gun" even though none did. Detective Marc Cooper apologized to the Bell family "for the tragedy." Taibbi pointed out that the detectives "still face civil suits, departmental hearings and possible federal civil rights charges."
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