Fiancée: ‘little justice’ in firing of Bell officer
SEAN BELL’S fiancee said Saturday that the canning of one of the cops who unloaded in the fatal 50-bullet barrage was “little justice” — and that all four officers involved should be fired.
“I’m thankful that finally after six years, the officer was terminated,” Nicole Paultre Bell said. “But honestly, it should have been terminations across the board. It’s little justice for us at this point.”
Sean Bell, who was unarmed, was killed in 2006 outside Club Kalua, a strip bar in Jamaica, Queens, on the day of his wedding after attending a late night bachelor party.
Detective Gescard Isnora, who fired the first shot, is being dismissed without benefits. Three other officers, Detective Michael Oliver, Detective Marc Cooper and Lt. Gary Napoli got deals with the NYPD that will let them maintain benefits if they resign. They were cleared of criminal charges in 2008.
Paultre Bell, who has two children with her late fiance, also spoke out about the recent killings of two unarmed teens — Ramarley Graham and Trayvon Martin.
Graham, 18, was shot and killed in February after cops chased him into his parents apartment in the Bronx. Martin, 17, has garnered national headlines since being killed last month in a gated Florida community by a neighborhood watch captain.
“It’s sad, every time you turn on the news and see another case of what happened, it brings back those raw feelings,” Paultre Bell said. “These men have to be held accountable.”