NATION IN BRIEF : NEW YORK : Training Ordered After Officer Is Shot
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
New York City transit police officers will begin new sensitivity training next week, the result of the shooting of a black undercover officer by two white colleagues who thought he was a mugger. Police groups representing minorities will work with the department on the training, Transit Police Chief Michael F. O’Connor said. Officer Derwin Pannell, 26, was shot on a dimly lighted subway platform. He was in serious but guarded condition at Brookdale Hospital with a bullet in his neck.
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