This is just about his "canned/standard quote when ever he is caught up in something:

"Whatever retaliation they do on me, we never stop," he told the AP. "I think that that is why they try to intimidate us."

"Sharpton's reputation has undergone a remarkable renaissance since the Tawana Brawley days in 1987, when he was accused of helping create a hoax in which the 15-year-old girl claimed she had been kidnapped and raped by a gang of whites that included a police officer and a prosecutor. A grand jury concluded that Brawley made the story up."
He never paid the fines for this either. And he is the only one of the four men invloved who somehow walked out of that mess with a life and a career.

The timing is no coincidence.

Officers Face Departmental Charges in Bell Killing
 

Officers Face Departmental Charges in Bell Killing .
Seven New York City police officers involved in the fatal shooting of Sean Bell, including three detectives who were acquitted in a criminal trial, were formally accused on Tuesday of breaking Police Department rules in the case.
The department said that the officers violated the internal policy manual — its Patrol Guide — in a variety of ways, including improperly firing their guns and failing to process the crime scene after Mr. Bell was killed and his two friends injured in a storm of 50 bullets...
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/21/ny...ss&oref=slogin

Good. At least it's something. Interested to see if federal charges ever come down.