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Tony Yayo & Foxy Brown Speak On The Sean Bell Settlement [Video]
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Four years after a shooting left an unarmed Sean Bell dead (on the eve of his wedding) and two of his friends wounded following a tragic incident with New York City police, the city has agreed to pay $7 million dollars to settle a federal lawsuit filed by Bell's family and his friends.
According to The New York Times, in the early hours of November 25, 2006, five New York City police officers fired 50 shots into the car Bell — who was to be married that day — was driving outside a club in Queens, New York. The car reportedly struck a detective in the leg and hit a police van before the officers began firing. None of the three men in the car — Bell and his friends Joseph Guzman and Trent Benefield — were armed, although the officers apparently believed at least one was.
In what's seen as the closing chapter in one of the most controversial police shootings in New York City history — three officers were acquitted of manslaughter and reckless-endangerment charges in 2008, a ruling many activists and rappers spoke out against — the families of the victims are looking to move past the tragedy.
As part of the settlement, Bell's two young daughters (whom he had with his fiancée, Nicole Paultre Bell) will receive $3.25 million; Guzman (who was shot 17 times) and Trent Benefield will receive $3 million and $900,000 respectively, according to Times.
Earlier this week, Foxy Brown — a close friend of Bell's fiancée — said Paultre Bell is a strong woman who remained in high spirits throughout the four-year ordeal.
"She just handled everything so gracefully," Brown said. "She just did everything with grace and class."
G-Unit member Tony Yayo, whose G-Unity foundation gave proceeds from a recent event to Bell's family, said the settlement is long overdue.
"I think it's a beautiful thing, but rest in peace to Sean Bell," Yayo said. "I mean, you have times now when a police officer can shoot you in your back, handcuffed on the floor, in a train station in front of everybody and get two years," Yayo said, referring to the Oscar Grant shooting in Oakland, California, in which found a transit officer was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter last month. "So Sean Bell's people deserve that money, definitely, and blessings to them."
Source: MTV
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Comment by BOOMSHA the Highschool Dropout on July 31, 2010 at 6:26am -
No justice,No peace,straite like that!
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Comment by King David aka KinG KonG on July 30, 2010 at 4:35pm -
money cant replace the lost this family had, justice first and then comes the money , and 7 million is not that much for what happened. and they have to split it and his children is getting 3.25 mill that they will have to split and ther mother aint getting s*** !!! the 2 man that got shot will have to Split 3.25 mill and 900,000 and what does the mother get that lost her husband ??????. if this people where WHITE people they would of gotten more than 7 mill trust me (NO DISRESPECT TO WHITE PEOPLE ) and thats the truth !.
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Comment by Young Guerilla on July 30, 2010 at 9:39am -
MY MAN TONY YAYO!!!
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Comment by Omega RED on July 30, 2010 at 8:19am -
good idea
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Comment by HighestEarner on July 30, 2010 at 7:28am -
Stupid idea
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Comment by frankieboi1983 on July 30, 2010 at 5:49am -
I think they should fire all the white cops and hire all black cops. that way black people will stop playing the race card. lol. good idea or no?
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Comment by Ra'Shawna T Banks on July 30, 2010 at 4:42am -
Now Nicole and his two daughters can have peace! GOD BLESSED;)
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