I'm beginning to wonder if NYC cops should be issued handguns.
Joe
NEW YORK (AP) - Police were trying to determine whether an undercover officer's weapon was fired accidentally in a struggle that left an unarmed man dead. Thursday's police shooting - the second fatal one this year - happened just two weeks after officers shot and killed an unarmed man in the Bronx. Eleven people died in police shootings last year. In the latest incident, Patrick Dorismond, a black security guard, died at a hospital from a bullet wound to the chest. No drugs or other contraband were found on his body. Two weeks ago, another undercover officer fatally shot an unarmed man in the Bronx, blocks from where unarmed immigrant Amadou Diallo was shot and killed last year by four white police officers.
See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2565029684-3d8
[This message has been edited by Numbers (edited March 17, 2000).]
Joe
NEW YORK (AP) - Police were trying to determine whether an undercover officer's weapon was fired accidentally in a struggle that left an unarmed man dead. Thursday's police shooting - the second fatal one this year - happened just two weeks after officers shot and killed an unarmed man in the Bronx. Eleven people died in police shootings last year. In the latest incident, Patrick Dorismond, a black security guard, died at a hospital from a bullet wound to the chest. No drugs or other contraband were found on his body. Two weeks ago, another undercover officer fatally shot an unarmed man in the Bronx, blocks from where unarmed immigrant Amadou Diallo was shot and killed last year by four white police officers.
See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2565029684-3d8
[This message has been edited by Numbers (edited March 17, 2000).]