Today, I feel the same as Nicole Paultre in regards to the NYPD officers who killed her fiance and father of her child, Sean Bell, on the day they were to be wed: I believe they may be murderers, also.

Paultre, in a interview on hip-hop radio station Power 105.1 said: “They were murderers, murderers…They were not officers. No one gives anyone the right to kill somebody.”

Bell and two friends, Joseph Guzman and Trent Benefield, were driving home at 4am from a Queens strip club, where they were celebrating Bell’s bachelor party.

According to police, they say an argument outside the club sparked the suspicion of an undercover officer in the club who said a member of Bell’s party referred to going to get a gun.

Here’s more from the article:

An undercover officer walked closely behind Bell and his friends as they headed for their car. As he walked toward the front of the vehicle, Bell and his friend drove forward — striking him and an undercover police vehicle, Kelly said.

The officer who had followed the group on foot was apparently the first to open fire, Kelly said.

One 12-year veteran fired his weapon 31 times, emptying two full magazines, Kelly said.

The end result: Bell was killed, Guzman is in critical condition after being hit 11 times and Benefield was hit 3 times but is in good condition and telling his side of the story, which includes the assertion that the undercover officer never identified himself. Oh, by the way, these three men were unarmed.

Okay, here’s some questions I have. There’s an undercover officer in a undercover vehicle at 4am in a spot that police say was not the most savory. Do you think that they might have been spooked thinking that this was some random person trying to kill them? Did the officer even identify himself? Hell, I might have hit somebody if I thought they were trying to take my life.

In the end, a young woman, on what should have been one of the happiest days of her life, has lost her fiance and a child has lost her father. Perhaps, justice will come but, given the NYPD track record, I don’t hold out hope.

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