Who's got the power?

Take a look at this picture on the front page of the New York Times today (click the picture to link to a larger version of the photo on the NYT site):

Here is the Mayor of New York, a multi-millionaire businessman, but who is everyone in the picture -- including the deputy mayor! -- looking at? Al Sharpton. He's the one with the power in that situation. Almost makes you feel sorry for Bloomberg, but hey, that's what you get when you're mayor of a city with cops that go nuts on a regular schedule.