Justice Dept to review wedding day shooting

NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. authorities will consider civil rights charges in the case of three New York police detectives who were acquitted on Friday in the shooting death of an unarmed black man killed in a hail of 50 bullets on his wedding day.

The Justice Department will be joined by federal prosecutors in New York and the FBI in a review of the case, the department said.

"They will conduct an independent review of the facts and circumstances surrounding the November 25, 2006, shooting of Sean Bell and two others that resulted in the death of Mr. Bell," it said in a statement.

A New York state judge cleared the three police officers of all charges on Friday.

"The Civil Rights Division and the United States Attorney's Office have been monitoring the state's prosecution of this case and, following the review of all the evidence, will take appropriate action if the evidence indicates a prosecutable violation of federal criminal civil rights statutes," it said.

(Reporting by Daniel Trotta; Editing by Doina Chiacu)