And here in New York, a wake was held Tuesday for an off-duty African American police officer killed last week by a white officer who mistook him for a criminal. The slain officer, twenty-five-year-old Omar Edwards, had come across a man breaking into his vehicle. He chased the man with his gun drawn, when three police officers came upon him and one of them opened fire. Edwards was recently married and the father of two children. Democratic Congress member Charles Rangel of New York says he wants the Justice Department to probe Edwards’ killing.