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… The Sean Bell shooting highlighted the complexities our dedicated officers must face each day. The city regrets the loss of life in this tragic case, and we share our deepest condolences with the Bell family,” Michael Cordozo, an attorney for the New York City Law Department, said in a statement.
Bell was attending his bachelor party the night before his wedding, and got into a scuffle with undercover police officers, who opened fire on him and the two other friends. In a matter of seconds, the officers fired 50 shots.
Police assert that one of the men had a gun and was going for it but an investigation found that there was no gun present. Officers also said that the men, as they were driving away, did not stop when police told them to do so.
His bachelor party was being held at a strip club in Jamaica, Queens, where undercover officers were investigating for prostitution allegations.

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… Nobody wins in this,” a somber Joseph Guzman — who was shot 17 times and still wears a leg brace — said at a news conference a day after the settlement was announced.
The deal in a case that ignited community outrage and raised questions about police firepower awards $3.25 million to the estate of Sean Bell, $3 million to Guzman and $900,000 to a third victim, Trent Benefield, minus 30 percent legal fees.
The Bell estate payout will benefit two young daughters he had with Nicole Paultre Bell, who legally took his name after his death.
The fiancee called the settlement “reasonable.” But, she added, the girls “will never have their father.”
Bell, 23, died in a hail of 50 bullets on Nov. 25, 2006, around the corner from a Queens topless bar where he had just had a bachelor party and where undercover police were investigating complaints of prostitution.

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SQUEAKY-CLEAN heartthrob Zac Efron and two pals spent more than $US2,000 ($2240) on lap dances and vodka at a top New York strip club, the New York Post reports.
The Disney High School Musical star showed up at Flashdancers Gentlemen’s Club Sunday night and stayed until 3am, just hours before the New York premiere of his new family-friendly flick, Charlie St. Cloud.
Efron, 22, was joined by another male friend and his former High School Musical castmate Corbin Bleu, 21.
The trio took a shine to three pretty brunette dancers, showered them with cash and requests for personal dances, spies said.
“Zac came in Sunday night around midnight with Corbin and one other male friend, who paid for everything,” a spy said. “They were seated in the VIP lounge behind the main stage. There was only a rail between them and the girls who were dancing.”

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Bell’s friends, Joseph Guzman, 35, who was shot 11 times, will receive $3 million and Trent Benefield, 27, who was hit three times, will get $900,000.
The deal ends a four-year legal battle by Nicole Paultre-Bell and Bell’s two friends who were wounded when police fired off a whopping 50 shots on Nov. 25, 2006. The cops involved mistakenly believed Bell and his friends were firing at them. A lengthy investigation eventually revealed that Bell and his friends had no weapons.
Bell and his friends were leaving his bachelor party at a strip club in Queens when they were shot. Police had been investigating the club for drug activity. The incident caused a major uproar in the community as Bell’s fiancée garnered the support of Reverend Al Sharpton who helped stage several protests.

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Zac Efron spent up at strip club 
Zac Efron reportedly spent more than $2,000 on lap dancers and vodka at a New York strip club.
The actor and two male friends – including his ‘High School Musical’ co-star Corbin Bleu – visited Flashdancers Gentlemen’s Club on Broadway on Sunday night and stayed until 3am.
The ‘Charlie St. Cloud’ star – who has been dating actress Vanessa Hudgens since 2005 – is said to have requested dances from three pretty brunettes.
A witness at the club told the New York Post newspaper “Zac came in Sunday night around midnight with Corbin and one other male friend, who paid for everything. They were seated in the VIP lounge behind the main stage. There was only a rail between them and the girls who were dancing.

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Plaintiffs: NYC settlement of 50-shot case is fair
(AP) – 6 hours ago
NEW YORK — The fiancee of an unarmed man killed by police in 50-bullet barrage and a friend who survived the shooting say a $7 million civil settlement is fair, but not cause for celebration.
Nichole Paultre (PAWL-tray) Bell and Joseph Guzman spoke Wednesday at a news conference at their lawyer’s Brooklyn office.
The deal announced Tuesday awards $3.25 million to the estate of Sean Bell, $3 million to Guzman and $900,000 to a third victim, Trent Benefield.
The three men were shot in 2006 outside a strip club in Queens where Bell had his bachelor party. Three police officers charged in the shooting claimed they believed the men had a gun. The officers were acquitted in 2008.

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Zac Efron Hits Strip Club With High School Buddy
And how do we know this?
First, he’s starring in Charlie St. Cloud, which is an adult role, and secondly, he’s now patronizing big-people places like strip clubs!
On Sunday night, Zac, his High School costar Corbin Bleu and another buddy hit Flashdancers in New York City and spent around $2,000 on lap dances and booze, the club confirms to E! News.
The New York Post’s Page Six, which first reported the story, says that their party didn’t end until 3 a.m. and that Zac took a liking to three ladies in particular…
Speaking of Vanessa, she doesn’t mind Zac making out with other women for work, but no word on whether she cares about her man spending cash on strippers. Her rep didn’t respond to our request for comment.

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The city reached a settlement with the family of Sean Bell, who was fatally shot by the police on the eve of his wedding in November 2006. His family will receive $3.25 million; his friends Joseph Guzman and Trent Benefield, who also injured from the 50 shots fired by undercover police, will receive $3 million and $900,000 respectively. The NYC Law Department Corporation Counsel Michael Cardozo said, “The Sean Bell shooting highlighted the complexities our dedicated officers must face each day. The City regrets the loss of life in this tragic case, and we share our deepest condolences with the Bell family.”
Bell was leaving a bachelor party at Club Kalua, a strip club in Jamaica, Queens, when undercover police officers, on the scene to make prostitution arrests, believed Bell and his friends were armed. Then a chaotic scene unfolded: The undercover detectives claimed they identified themselves and told Bell, Guzman and Benefield to get out of the car while drawing their guns, …

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The city’s attorney Michael A. Cardozo released a statement on the case saying,
“We hope that all parties can find some measure of closure by this settlement.”
Nicole Paultre-Bell also spoke on the settlement and says no amount of money can reverse the pain.
“No amount of money can provide closure, no amount of money can make up for the pain. We’ll just try to learn how to live with it and move on.”
Three police officers were acquitted of multiple charges including manslaughter in 2008 for the 2006 shooting of Bell, as he left his bachelor party on his wedding day.
Officers fired 50 shots into Bell’s vehicle outside of a NYC gentleman’s club, one even stopping to reload before firing 31 shots into the unarmed Black man’s car.

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July 28, 2010
Sean Bell and Sherri Rasmussen – Civil Justice Remedies Police Violence
The anger which ignited the 1992 Los Angeles riots is
frightfully similar to what many New York City residents felt after the
acquittal of police officers who shot and killed Sean Bell in a hail of
NYPD gunfire outside a strip club in Queens after leaving his bachelor
party.
“The officers fired 50
shots in just a few seconds.  … Police said they believed at least one of the men had a gun, but no gun was found.”
In both
situations, a clearly exasperated public was left shocked and confused by a
“not guilty” jury verdict returned in a criminal case against police officers. 
When police officers are cleared of criminal misconduct in
cases like these, however, the matter often does not end there. Sometimes, civil litigation against the perpetrators of
police violence is the only way victims can receive justice, some form of compensation
and move on.

See the full article from “ThePopTort (blog)”