Three months after Florida police shot and killed a computer engineer walking with an unloaded air rifle, two of the officers involved received awards for bravery, even though the incident was still under investigation.

Three months after Florida police shot and killed a computer engineer walking with an unloaded air rifle, two of the officers involved received awards for bravery, even though the incident was still under investigation.

Now their boss — who stood next to them at the ceremony — says those commendations were a mistake and plans to revise department rules.

"The policy was violated," Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel told NBC News. "They should not have received the awards."

Israel said he was not involved in the awards process until the evening of the semi-annual ceremony and he doesn't know who signed off on the awards — because the paperwork was accidentally destroyed.

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