no, article was clear, they were quoting the dispatch pst on the caught inbetween fire:
"The
Post-Dispatch reported that police are calling the incident an example of “friendly fire” due to the suspects from the car chase firing at police. The paper also reported that police initially claimed that the 38-year-old African American officer, who has been on the force for 11 years, was “caught in the crossfire.”"
which had already been proven erronious when more info came out. Still no names but what his lawyer was trying to say and badly was the level of peril of even being black and a cop. Due to lack of precise cases but together which should be by the FBI for faralities of animals and people by indivduals in law enforcement per county and state he apparently hadn't heard of other cases
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nat...ff-duty-responding-gunfight-article-1.3270781
- The off-duty cop, who lives nearby, heard the chaos erupt. He grabbed his service weapon and hurried out to help police at the scene, according to the Post-Dispatch.
The 38-year-old officer, an 11-year department veteran, was initially stopped by two uniformed St. Louis cops and ordered to the ground.
But the cops soon recognized the mystery man as one of their own and told him to walk toward them, according to a department incident summary released Thursday.
An off-duty St. Louis officer was shot by another cop.
(FOX 2 NOW)
That's when another officer arrived — and fired at the off-duty cop, striking him in the arm, the report said.
During a news conference at Barnes-Jewish Hospital, interim St. Louis Chief Lawrence O'Toole said the officer was hit by "friendly fire" as cops traded shots with the suspects.
But the department later confirmed the frustrating circumstances leading to the officer's injury.
According to Fox 2 Now, the officer who fired at his colleague told investigators he feared for his safety and didn't recognize the man as one of their own.
Deandre Chaney (l.) and Cortney Smith (r.) were arrested after allegedly opening fire on police following a car chase.
(ST. LOUIS METROPOLITAN POLICE DEPARTMENT)
The shooter cop, whose name has been withheld, is described as 36 years old and an 8-year department veteran.
The incident is a "real problem," a lawyer for the wounded cop said in a statement.
"In the police report, you have so far, there is no description of threat he received. So we have a real problem with that," Rufus Tate Jr. wrote. "But this has been a national discussion for the past two years. There is this perception that a black man is automatically feared.""
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The agency tryed to really play it down but the issue is once again for no known reason someone was shot and luckily not killed by a third le agent that walked onto the scene which has happened a few times, this time to a cop.
[doublepost=1498344558,1498344106][/doublepost]I think there are allot of factors, namely people being allowed on the fore that are too trigger happy and the idea of being able to use a catch all of fear to this or other type cases should be immediate dismissal
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nati...12026319da7_story.html?utm_term=.cc120ec5dff3
Lawyer: Race a factor in St. Louis cop being mistakenly shot
By Jim Suhr | AP June 24 at 6:10 PM
An off-duty black St. Louis police officer’s race factored into him being mistakenly shot by a white officer who didn’t recognize him during a shootout with black suspects this week, the wounded officer’s lawyer contends.
The 38-year-old black officer was off duty when he heard a commotion near his home and ran toward it with his service weapon to try to help his fellow officers, police said.
St. Louis’ interim police chief, Lawrence O’Toole, said the incident began when officers with an anti-crime task force followed a stolen car and were twice fired upon by its occupants. One suspect was shot in an ankle and was arrested, along with another teenager who tried to run from police, O’Toole said. A third suspect is being sought.
When the off-duty officer who lived nearby heard the commotion and arrived at the scene to help, two on-duty officers ordered him to the ground but then recognized him and told him to stand up and walk toward them. As he was doing so, another officer arrived and shot the off-duty officer “apparently not recognizing” him, police said
The police department as of Saturday hadn’t disclosed the names of the officers, who have been placed on routine administrative leave as the matter is investigated. Police described the black officer as an 11-year department veteran and said he was treated at a hospital and released. The officer who shot him is 36 and has been with the department more than eight years.
The black officer’s lawyer, Rufus J. Tate Jr., discussed the shooting with St. Louis Fox affiliate KTVI, but the officer isn’t named in that report. Tate did not reply to several phone messages seeking comment left Saturday by The Associated Press.
Tate told the station that his client identified himself to the on-duty officers at the scene and complied with their commands. He questioned the white officer’s account, according to police, that he shot the off-duty officer because he feared for his safety.
“In the police report you have so far, there is no description of a threat he received. So we have a real problem with that. But this has been a national discussion for the past two years. There is this perception that a black man is automatically feared,” Tate said.
It was in the St. Louis suburb of Ferguson where a white officer shot an unarmed black teenager, Michael Brown, three years ago, setting off months of protests, some of which were violent. The officer, who later left the force, wasn’t charged, which further strained relations between the area’s black community and the police.
But there have been several notable instances over the years in which an officer mistakenly shot a colleague.
In 2009, 25-year-old New York City police Officer Omar J. Edwards, who was black, was shot and killed by a white officer on a Harlem street while in street clothes. He had just finished his shift, and had his service weapon out, chasing a man who had broken into his car, police said.
Three plainclothes officers on routine patrol arrived at the scene and yelled for the two to stop, police said. One officer, Andrew Dunton, opened fire and hit Edwards three times as he turned toward them with his service weapon. It wasn’t until medical workers were on scene that it was determined he was a police officer. A grand jury voted not to indict Dunton.
A year earlier in the suburb of White Plains, New York, a black off-duty Mount Vernon police officer was killed by a Westchester County policeman while holding an assault suspect at gunpoint.
And in Providence, Rhode Island, an off-duty black police sergeant, Cornel Young Jr., was accidentally killed by two uniformed white colleagues in 2000 while he was trying to break up a fight on a parking lot. Young was the son of the department’s highest-ranking black officer at the time.
A jury later rejected a $20 million federal lawsuit by Young’s mother against the city and its police force, who she claimed didn’t properly train officers about how to identify their off-duty and plainclothes counterparts.
Federal Bureau of Investigation statistics show such accidental police-on-police shootings occur at a low rate given the tense, confusing circumstances officers routinely face. In 2013, according to online FBI figures, only two officers were killed when mistakenly shot as a result of crossfire, mistaken for a subject, or involved in other firearm mishaps. The FBI statistics don’t specify the race of the officers killed.
