A City Council committee today is expected to vote on a controversial bill to rename a Queens street after Sean Bell, who was killed in a hail of 50 police bullets on what was to be his wedding day.
The council’s Committee on Parks and Recreation will vote on renaming a section of Liverpool Street, Sean Bell Way.
Bell, 23, who was unarmed, was shot in his car there outside a Jamaica strip club in 2006 as he left a bachelor party with friends.
Undercover detectives probing reports of alleged prostitution at the club said one of Bell’s pals was overheard saying, “Yo, go get my gun,” after getting into an argument with someone and they headed off to Bell’s car together.
A judge in 2008 acquitted three detectives of all charges in Bell’s death.
Michael Palladino, president of the detectives union, said the proposal is “disgraceful.”
But the Rev. Al Sharpton said, “No one is seeing this as a statement against police except Mr. Palladino.”