Omar Edwards and his wife along with his 1 1/2 year old son and his 7 month old son

Omar Edwards and his wife along with his 1 1/2 year old son and his 7 month old son

Officer Omar Edwards was honored and unfortunately buried in Brooklyn today. Edwards was killed in the line of duty on Thursday, May 28th in Harlem after he began chasing an assailant that he found breaking into his car.
Cops getting shot is nothing new to New Yorkers, but when Fox news in NY first started reporting it, it sounded a little fishy…
A cop was shot
ok
in Harlem
uh-huh
in the back
eyebrows raise
by accident
arms crossed
by another police officer
oh boy, how is the NYPD gonna cover this one up?
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Conflicting reports started coming in as the story gained momentum and the NYPD fixers stepped it and it looked like you were gonna need a score card to identify all the players. That’s when I decided to make a chart to help us all decipher what the NYPD were telling the press and what the witnesses were saying.

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