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<DIV id=cnnSCHeadlineArea><A name=ContentArea></A><H1>Angry crowd protests NYPD shooting</H1><H5><SCRIPT language=JavaScript type=text/javascript> </SCRIPT>POSTED: 12:46 p.m. EST, November 27, 2006 </H5></DIV><DIV id=cnnSCContentColumn><SCRIPT language=JavaScript type=text/javascript>var clickExpire = "12/27/2006";</SCRIPT><DIV id=cnnSCHighlightsBox><H4><SPAN>Story Highlights</SPAN></H4>• NEW: Mayor Michael Bloomberg said he expects a grand jury to investigate
• Five officers involved are placed on paid administrative leave
• Angry crowd gathers to demand answers about NYPD shooting of groom
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NEW YORK (AP) -- An angry crowd shouted "No justice, no peace!" Some called for the ouster of the city's police commissioner. Many counted off to 50, the number of rounds that are estimated to have been fired by police at three unarmed men, killing one on his wedding day.
Several hundred people gathered Sunday for a vigil and rally to demand answers about why officers let fly a flurry of bullets at 23-year-old Sean Bell early Saturday, hours before he was supposed to marry the mother of his two young children.
The five officers were placed on paid administrative leave and stripped of their guns, said Paul Browne, chief spokesman for the NYPD. Police and prosecutors promised a full investigation.
But none of that stemmed the fury of a community outraged by the shootings. (Watch the crowd count down the number of shots fired
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"We cannot allow this to continue to happen," the Rev. Al Sharpton said at the gathering outside Mary Immaculate Hospital, where one of the two wounded men was in critical condition. "We've got to understand that all of us were in that car."
Relatives of the men, including Bell's fiancee, attended the vigil and rally but none spoke publicly.
Some in the crowd called for the removal of Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly, yelling "Kelly must go!"
Kelly has said that police shot at the car after it drove forward and struck an undercover officer and an unmarked police minivan. The information was based on interviews with witnesses and two officers who did not fire their weapons, he said.
But a witness account emerged Monday disputing that version of events.
Trini Wright, a dancer at the strip club where Bell's bach
• Five officers involved are placed on paid administrative leave
• Angry crowd gathers to demand answers about NYPD shooting of groom
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</DIV><DIV id=cnnSCFontPlusBtn onclick="setActiveStyleSheet('LargeFont'); return false;"></DIV></DIV>NEW YORK (AP) -- An angry crowd shouted "No justice, no peace!" Some called for the ouster of the city's police commissioner. Many counted off to 50, the number of rounds that are estimated to have been fired by police at three unarmed men, killing one on his wedding day.
Several hundred people gathered Sunday for a vigil and rally to demand answers about why officers let fly a flurry of bullets at 23-year-old Sean Bell early Saturday, hours before he was supposed to marry the mother of his two young children.
The five officers were placed on paid administrative leave and stripped of their guns, said Paul Browne, chief spokesman for the NYPD. Police and prosecutors promised a full investigation.
But none of that stemmed the fury of a community outraged by the shootings. (Watch the crowd count down the number of shots fired
)"We cannot allow this to continue to happen," the Rev. Al Sharpton said at the gathering outside Mary Immaculate Hospital, where one of the two wounded men was in critical condition. "We've got to understand that all of us were in that car."
Relatives of the men, including Bell's fiancee, attended the vigil and rally but none spoke publicly.
Some in the crowd called for the removal of Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly, yelling "Kelly must go!"
Kelly has said that police shot at the car after it drove forward and struck an undercover officer and an unmarked police minivan. The information was based on interviews with witnesses and two officers who did not fire their weapons, he said.
But a witness account emerged Monday disputing that version of events.
Trini Wright, a dancer at the strip club where Bell's bach
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