No charges in NYC friendly fire police shooting (AP)
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No charges in NYC friendly fire police shooting (AP)
AP - A New York City policeman who fatally shot another officer on a dark street in Harlem will not face criminal charges, the Manhattan district attorney announced Thursday.
After hearing from 20 witnesses and examining 68 documents, a grand jury voted not to indict Officer Andrew Dunton in the May 28 shooting of Officer Omar Edwards, District Attorney Robert Morgenthau said. Edwards, 25, was off duty and in street clothes when he chased a man who had broken into his car. Dunton and two other plainclothes officers patrolling nearby noticed the two men and ordered them to halt. When Edwards turned toward them with his gun out, Dunton shot him. Because Edwards was black and Dunton is white, some civil rights advocates have charged that race was a factor in the shooting. More... |
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