While the United states Armed Forces (private mercenaries) are in Afghanistan, Djibouti, Iraq, the Philippines and west Africa defending “all freedom-loving people everywhere in the world,” Michael Carey, Marc Cooper, Gescard Isnora and Michael Olive, New York City statute enforcement officers fatally shoot Sean Bell, as he was leaving his bachelor’s party.

       NOTE: Bell was supposed to have been married the next day.

       [restored 3/3/2024] Thanks to Freedom’s Phoenix for this entry.