Keeping secret the identity of a police officer who shot a black crime suspect might seem anathema during a national time of reckoning about police brutality and racial disparity.

But that's what a Florida police union is trying to do, after a Tallahassee officer killed a black transgender male who allegedly pointed a gun at him.

The Florida Police Benevolent Association sued the city after Tallahassee officials decided to release the name of an officer, identified as Officer "John Doe," to the news media. The union cited privacy protections in a 2018 Florida constitutional amendment known as "Marsy's Law."