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Plainclothes Cop is Fatally Shot by OTHER Plainclothes Cop in Harlem, NYC

Facial_King

I'm too lazy to set a usertitle.
Crazy scenario.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/29/nyregion/29cop.html

Excerpt:

"A New York City police officer who had just gotten off duty was fatally shot late Thursday in East Harlem by a fellow officer who mistook him for an armed criminal, Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly said.

The officer who was killed, Omar J. Edwards, 25, a two-year veteran who was assigned to patrol housing projects and was wearing plain clothes, was shot in the arm and chest after a team of three other plainclothes officers in a car came upon him chasing a man on East 125th Street between First and Second Avenues with his gun drawn, Mr. Kelly said.

The team’s members, assigned to the anticrime unit in the 25th Precinct, got out of their vehicle and confronted Officer Edwards. The police were investigating whether the officers had identified themselves or demanded that Officer Edwards drop his weapon before one of them opened fire.

Mr. Kelly identified the officer who fired the shots only as a four-year veteran of the department, and said he had fired six rounds from his 9-millimeter Glock. Two bullets struck Officer Edwards.

Officer Edwards, a recently married father of two from Brooklyn, was taken to Harlem Hospital Center, where he was pronounced dead at 11:21 p.m. No one else was injured."

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and apparently, this sort of thing isn't unprecedented:

"There have been at least two cases of off-duty police officers being shot by colleagues in the New York region in recent years.

In January 2008, a Mount Vernon officer, Christopher A. Ridley, 23, was killed by Westchester County police officers in downtown White Plains as he tried to restrain a homeless man whom he had seen assault another person.

And in February 2006, a New York City officer, Eric Hernandez, 24, was fatally shot by a fellow officer while responding to a 911 call about a fight at a White Castle restaurant in the Bronx."
 

calpoon

Yes, I bribed and cheated to get this far
There's a lot of armed and dangerous people running around on the streets.

Some of them are cops.
 

georges

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Staff member
i didn't know that the nyc cops went that way.
 

gunslingingbird

I'm too lazy to set a usertitle.
Just goes to show that cops shoot first and ask questions later. :ban:
 

laxe

I ran out of lube. Can I borrow yours?
I bash cops alot, but this is sad.
It just shows that cops nowadays whether people want to admit it or not, are trigger happy thugs that LOVE to show their authority.
 

mrtrebus

I'm too lazy to set a usertitle.
I bash cops alot, but this is sad.
It just shows that cops nowadays whether people want to admit it or not, are trigger happy thugs that LOVE to show their authority.
True.

Sadly this incident will probably lead to the culprit getting a harsher sentence than if it was an innocent member of the public that got shot. In those cases things get swept under the carpet.
 

Big Perm

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That's too bad.
Anyone remember the story, or have a link of the story of the cops that opened fire on a suspect, and 90 something rounds were fired from the police, none of them hit the suspect. The suspect never returned fire. Afterwards, they found bullet holes in their cruisers, and a police dog was shot...all from friendly fire.
It was either LA, or SD, if i remember right.
 

lovejoy

Roll a d6.
Let me tell you from Wall Street to Main Street and New York 5th Avenue:

The Italian mob in workplace in my company used the black managers to do dirty work and then the blacks "thinks" they are the Hub Managers and the boss.

At the end, the black got shot and killed. The Italian mob kept quiet and moved on.

That's life in NYPD and all other corporations in Canada and United States !
 
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