Rev. Al Sharpton was arrested on the Brooklyn Bridge on Wednesday as he joined hundreds of demonstrators in blocking traffic to protest the acquittal of three New York City Police detectives who fired 50 shots into a car of three unarmed men- resulting in the November 2006 murder of Sean Bell, 23. The father of two, who had just left his bachelor party at Queens, New York nightclub, was set to be married later that day. Shooting survivors Trent Benefield and Joseph Guzman, and Bell’s fiancee, Nicole Paultre Bell were also arrested. They are being charged with “civil disobedience.”

“Today we want motorists to think about how three people were shot 50 times by officers,” Rev. Sharpton said on Wednesday morning.

“It’s about multiple gatherings to show real concern, so the federal government will have to deal with the public outcry and say, “wow people are so upset in New York”…feeling the civil rights are at risk here, that we have to look into this in a serious way,” Rev. Al Sharpton said.

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