And here in New York, three police detectives went on trial Monday for the killing of Sean Bell. In November 2006, the twenty-three-year-old Bell was killed in a hail of fifty police bullets as he left his bachelor party. His friends Trent Benefield and Joseph Guzman were also shot, but they survived. None of the men were armed. In their opening statements, prosecutors said the police officers were “careless” and “criminal” in Bell’s shooting. Bell’s fiancée, Nicole Paultre Bell, broke down on the stand as she described the moment she identified Bell’s body. Hundreds gathered outside the courthouse Monday carrying signs with the numbers from one to fifty, representing each shot that was fired.