In the late hours of a spring evening in Manhattan, the life of a young, off-duty police officer named Omar Edwards was tragically cut short in a hail of friendly fire. Edwards, a 25-year-old Black man, had just finished his shift on May 28, 2009, when he encountered a man breaking into his car in East Harlem. With his service weapon drawn, he gave chase, a decision that would set in motion a fatal chain of events.
As Edwards pursued the suspect, a team of plainclothes officers from the 2
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