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Black leaders expressed frustration yesterday after a grand jury voted not to indict Officer Andrew Dunton in the fatal "friendly fire" shooting of fellow Officer Omar Edwards one rainy night in Harlem at the end of May. The Black Law Enforcement Alliance called the decision "disturbingly predictable," and demanded that investigations of police shootings be independent of the Police Department and the district attorney’s office: "The relationship between the police and the local prosecutors is incestuous and threatens public confidence in the integrity of the process."

Two police officers were injured in a confrontation with an armed suspect at the 21st Street and 41st Avenue subway station in Queensbridge around 5:00 p.m. WCBS 2 reports one cop was shot in the abdomen (his condition is critical; he is undergoing surgery) and the other was grazed by a bullet (he is stbale). the suspect was also shot in the leg. The F is currently bypassing the station and cops have flooded the area; according to the Daily News, "Swarms of cops were searching neighboring housing projects and canvassing stores in the area, though it was not immediately clear if they were hunting for additional suspects." Update: Reports now say that the suspect reached for one of the two plainclothes transit officers' guns after they approached him for illegally using a discount Metrocard and fired at the cops.