Here’s a shock…Al Sharpton is calling for his followers to shut down New York City because a trial didn’t go the way he wanted it to:

Al Sharpton promised to “close this city down” to protest the acquittals of three police detectives in the 50-shot barrage that killed a groom on his wedding day and wounded two friends.

“We strategically know how to stop the city so people stand still and realize that you do not have the right to shoot down unarmed, innocent civilians,” Sharpton told an overflow crowd of several hundred people at his National Action Network office in the historically black Manhattan neighborhood. “This city is going to deal with the blood of Sean Bell.”

Sharpton was joined by the family of 23-year-old Sean Bell – a black man – and a friend of Bell who was wounded in the 2006 shooting outside a Queens strip club. Two of the three officers charged were also black.

The rally at Sharpton’s office was followed by a 20-block march down Malcolm X Boulevard and then across 125th Street, Harlem’s main business thoroughfare, where some bystanders yelled out “Kill the police!”

This could be a redux of the riots in Los Angeles after the Rodney King verdict.  God forbid that happen.  I’ll be interested though, to see if Senators Obama or Clinton have anything at all to say about it.  Even more interesting would be if Jeremiah Wright got in on the action.  Could be very entertaining (and very damaging to Obama.)