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May 29, 2009

NY Police Kill Off-Duty Black Officer
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And here in New York, an off-duty African American police officer has
been killed by a fellow officer who mistook him for a criminal. The
slain officer, twenty-five-year-old Omar Edwards, had come across a man
breaking into his vehicle. He chased the man with his gun drawn when
three police officers came upon him and opened fire. Edwards was
recently married and the father of two children.



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