Al Sharpton revs up for strike

The Rev. Al Sharpton is back in his pulpit of the street, crying for justice and threatening to bring New York City to a traffic-snarled halt.

This is not the 1980s when Reverend Al made his name by - falsely - accusing the cops of abducting a black teenager named Tawana Brawley. This is not the 1990s, when he made his name a lot more credible by - rightly - accusing the cops of gross racism and brutality in the near-killing of Haitian immigrant Abner Louima. It is 2008 and a New York judge has just dismissed criminal charges against three cops who loosed-off 50 bullets outside a strip club to kill an unarmed 23-year-old black man, Sean Bell, as he left his bachelor party for his wedding day.

"This city is going to deal