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The mother of the undercover police officer who was shot by a fellow officer in East Harlem in May has expressed how displeased she is with the handling of the case. Natalia Harding, mother of the late Officer Omar Edwards, has rekindled discussion over the incident in which her son, a black officer in plainclothes, was fatally shot by Officer Andrew Dunton, a white cop chasing on foot. Harding said, "If this was Omar Edwards who shot -- whatever his name is — Dunton, Omar Edwards would be sitting in jail right now waiting to be tried for murder. I would like to see him go to jail. He is going to go out and do the same thing again."

Jersey City police officer Marc DiNardo, who was shot in the face by a shooting suspect last week, is in "extremely critical condition." DiNardo, 37, is part of the Emergency Service Unit; he and other officers had been staking out the apartment of Hassian Hosendove (aka Hassian Shakur) and his wife Amanda Anderson. Hosendove and Anderson emerged from their apartment last Thursday, wearing hooded robes, and fired at police officers; the pair were eventually killed in the ensuing gunfight—an autopsy says Hosendove was shot 19 times and Anderson once. The other officer who had been in critical condition, Michael Camacho, was upgraded and able to leave the Intensive Care Unit. Camacho was shot in the neck and is now is "serious but guarded" condition.