Stag night shooting 'excessive' - Mayor

New York’s mayor said police appeared to use excessive force when they fired 50 shots at an unarmed man in a confrontation outside a strip club, hours before his wedding.

“I can tell you that it is to me unacceptable or inexplicable how you can have 50-odd shots fired, but that’s up to the investigation to find out what really happened,” Michael Bloomberg said yesterday, after meeting elected officials and community leaders including the Rev Al Sharpton, a black civil rights leader, and congressman Charles Rangel.