NEW YORK, NY March 19, 2007 —District Attorney Richard Brown unsealed the grand jury's indictments and read the 8 charges against 3 officers for the death of an unarmed man and his friends in Jamaica Queens. Detective Michael Oliver and Detective Gescard Isnora were both charged with 1st degree manslaughter and face up to 25-years in prison. Detective Marc Cooper was charged with 2 counts second-degree reckless endangerment and faces up to one year in prison. All three officers plead not-guilt to all counts in the indictment.

REPORTER: Speaking on behalf of Bell's family and friends, the Reverend Al Sharpton said it's time for the officers in question to pay for their actions because Bell and his friends have suffered enough.

SHARPTON: They did nothing but go to a bachelor party and went and got in the car and became the victims of a crime. Whatever they have done in life they paid for theirs, now it's time for others to pay for what they did to them.

REPORTER: As word of the charges hit the streets, John Tripp of Crown Heights says if the officers are convicted, they should be severely punished.

SHARPTON: They should get a stricter penalty, because if it were the other way around, and a black male had shot a cop, automatically the penalty would be death. Meaning that would be their life. That was unnecessary, 50-shot for one person.

REPORTER: Sharpton has said several times the charges are only the first step in the Bell family's fight for justice. He said if there was any attempt to move the trial from Queens county to another location, Bell's family would be instructed not to cooperate.

Meanwhile bail for Oliver and Isnora has been set at $250,000, while, Cooper was released on his own recognizes.