By Patrick Sullivan

Sean Bell’s family met with federal prosecutors yesterday to discuss the possibility of pursuing civil rights violations against the cops acquitted in the shooting death of the unarmed groom-to-be in 2006.

US Attorney Benton Campbell met with Bell’s parents, William and Valerie Bell, his fiancée, Nicole Paultre-Bell, and her mother, Laura Harper, as well as Bell’s attorneys, Sanford Rubinstein and Michael Hardy, at his Brooklyn office.

The meeting was closed to the public and the press.

Campbell’s spokesman Robert Nardoza refused to discuss the meeting and attempts to contact National Action Network spokeswoman Rachel Nordlinger were unsuccessful.

The officers, detectives Michael Oliver, Gescard F. Isnora, and Marc Cooper, were cleared of criminal charges by Justice Arthur Cooperman in April following a heated eight-week trial.

Immediately after the Queens judge handed down the controversial verdict, the attorney’s office announced that they would conduct a review of the shooting.
“This is a very serious and determined investigation that appears to be moving in a positive direction,” Hardy said.
Campbell office did not offer a timetable on the completion of its probe into possible civil rights violations, but Hardy said that the family will remain patient in their pursuit of justice.

“We have waited this long and we will continue to wait until justice is finally served,” said Paultre-Bell
The announcement came just days before the two-year anniversary of Bell’s shooting death outside Club Kahlua on Nov. 25, 2006. Paultre-Bell announced the family’s plan to hold a vigil outside the strip club next Tuesday.

“Sean was a person, not just a name and this meeting gave a face to that person,” she said.