Omaha Mayor John Ewing Jr. said the city and Omaha Police Department are working to review police policies and procedures following a traffic stop where boxing champion Terence “Bud” Crawford was held at gunpoint.
Crawford’s security team has said they announced to officers that they had legally registered firearms in the car; however an OPD description of the encounter describes the officer seeing a gun on the floorboard when he approached the vehicle.
The mayor said Nebraska’s 2023 concealed carry law has resulted in “a significant number of traffic stops involving weapons” and has made law enforcement encounters “significantly more difficult” and “more dangerous for the citizens as well as police officers.”…