1.0link209447<![CDATA[Omar Edwards Shot By Fellow Officer Andrew Dunton]]>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/05/31/omar-edwards-shot-by-fell_n_209447.htmlNEW YORK — It's a police officer's nightmare scenario: Confronting someone who appears to be an armed suspect and opening fire, only to discover that person was actually an officer not in uniform.
It's the kind of mistake that haunts a department, opens it to scrutiny, and dominates headlines. While the phenomenon has happened around the country, New York is home to several cases in the past few years.