In a story June 24, The Associated Press reported that Rufus J. Tate Jr. is the attorney for a black off-duty St. Louis police officer who was mistakenly shot by a white officer. Tate is the attorney for the Ethical Society of Police, the police department's black officers' union, and he represents union members, including the black officer who was shot, in work-related matters.
Two federal police officers were mowed down Saturday in Mexico's Veracruz state, where gunman also killed a family of six, in the latest spasm of violence linked to criminal gangs. In the nearby city of Coatzacoalcos, the dead included two adults and four children who died in a hail of bullets as they ate dinner at an outdoor restaurant. Authorities added that two women were fatally shot in the town of Orizaba, also in Veracruz, one of Mexico's most violent states.
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