The Manhattan congressman's letter to Attorney General Eric Holder was dated and released Tuesday. /*Rangel*/ also asks investigators to examine what role race may have had in the shooting. Edwards was black; the officer who shot him is white.
Rangel apologized this week for an earlier comment about President /*Barack Obama*/ needing to be careful when visiting Harlem, apparently alluding to the shooting. He was answering a reporter's question about what Obama should do when he visited the city Saturday with the first lady.
Meanwhile, scores of police officers streamed into a Brooklyn funeral home for a wake for Officer Omar Edwards.
The viewing will continue Wednesday at the Woodward Funeral Home in Bedford-Stuyvesant. His funeral will be at 10 a.m. Thursday at Our Lady of Victory Roman Catholic Church.
The 25-year-old Edwards is survived by a wife and two young children.
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