At today’s rally for Omar Edwards, the off-duty police officer who was killed by another cop in East Harlem , Rep. Charles Rangel (D-Harlem) was asked if he had advice to give President Obama, who is visiting NYC this evening . The Daily News reports that Rangel delivered a “snide” answer, “Make certain he doesn’t run around in East Harlem unidentified .” Edwards, who was black, had been chasing a man suspected of breaking into his car; he was out of uniform with his gun drawn when he was fatally shot by a white officer . Rangel, who wants a federal investigation of the shooting, also said , “If you become an officer and you have a pistol and you are of color, in or out of uniform, your chances of getting shot down by a police officer
