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Old Onion headline: "NYPD Apologizes For Accidental Shooting-Clubbing-Stabbing-Firebombing Death." And 50 bullets does sound a touch excessive in trying to get a moving vehicle to stop, slow down, turn over, or disappear-as- metaphor-for-existence-of-party-going-minorities-in-Queens.

In floats Michael Bloomberg like a healing zephyr which whistles, "We can all just get along."

The mayor today convened an extraordinary summit at City Hall of black religious leaders and elected officials, including Representative Charles Rangel and the Rev. Al Sharpton, in an effort to calm frayed tempers over the shooting. Mr. Bloomberg appeared to be trying to quell anger among black leaders, but some said the underlying tensions between police and predominantly black communities remain.

Inexplicable. Unacceptable. Deeply Disturbing. But, alas, Still Under Investigation — these terms have to suffice until the D.A. gets done grilling the cops who opened fire on a black man leaving his nightclub bachelor party Saturday.

I'm not a huge fan of Bloomberg (I like the occasional ciggie with my gin), but I will credit him with a swift and no-nonsense response to the latest race convulsion involving trigger-happy cops. Is it cynical and poll-tested, what he's doing? Probably. But then, I can't quite see Rudy giving the black community the benefit of the doubt so soon after an incident like this, and before all the facts are in…

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