Three days after a judge exonerated three police officers in the killing of unarmed groom-to-be Sean Bell, Rep. John Conyers was scheduled to travel to New York City Monday to meet with the victim's family.
Conyers, a Michigan Democrat and chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, also planned to visit the scene in Queens where five officers fired 50 shots at Bell and his two friends, who were wounded in the shooting, the Rev. Al Sharpton and National Urban League President Marc Morial said.
Conyers' scheduled visit comes a day after national and local civil rights leaders and elected officials repeated calls for the U.S. Department of Justice to bring federal charges against the three officers. Also Sunday, other critics of the acquittal proposed a permanent state-level special prosecutor to investigate police misconduct and brutality cases.
Read more: Staten Island Live
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