During Nipsey Hussle’s funeral earlier this month his girlfriend Lauren London promised to keep his legacy alive and so far she has held true to her word. She’s gotten his face tattooed on her forearm and posted numerous photos and thoughts about their relationship to her social media. And while the rest of the world still mourns with her only a few know the pain attached to losing someone you love to gun violence. In an act of solidarity one woman, Nicole Paultre Bell, understands that pain all too well as her fiance Sean Bell was murdered by the NYPD in 2006 after leaving his bachelor party. Since that time Nicole has become an activist and she’s lending her support to Lauren as well.
Too Close Too Home
When news broke of Sean Bell’s death at the hands of the NYPD, the night before his wedding mind you, shockwaves pulsed throughout the entire community. Mainly because, at the time, we hadn’t become as accustomed to that type of devastating news on a weekly basis. However, his murder left us all reeling and questioning how something like this could happen. In reference to Nipsey’s death Hot New Hip Hop reports that Nicole, who has since remarried yet still retains Bell’s surname, had this to say;
“I’m replaying now everything that I went through the day I got the call and found out that Sean had been killed on my wedding day,” Paultre Bell tells theGrio. She said her thoughts instantly turned to London. “Immediately it was just like, ‘Oh my God, how is she going to pull through? How are the kids going to pull through? I don’t even know these people but I can feel them?”
