NATION IN BRIEF : NEW YORK : Training Ordered After Officer Is Shot
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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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