How do the Ferguson police mix up the sex of the wounded officer?

As Twitchy reported earlier, there were multiple incorrect reports that the officer wounded in Ferguson, Missouri was a woman. How exactly do the police mess something like that up?

Tweeters are wondering the same thing:

What a weird thing to get wrong RT @GPollowitz: Note the police have changed their earlier report: Officer who was shot in #ferguson is male

— Mollie (@MZHemingway) September 28, 2014

NYT still reporting officer shot in Ferguson was a woman. St. Louis County police chief confirms it was a male. pic.twitter.com/2zPgrbmBlW

— Anthony DeRosa ? (@Anthony) September 28, 2014

https://twitter.com/NathanWurtzel/status/516090325530849281

And we’ll leave it at this:

@MZHemingway @GPollowitz But these days who knows what male even means? Was the officer Cisgendered?

— David Marcus (@BlueBoxDave) September 28, 2014

@BlueBoxDave @GPollowitz just because he was assigned a penis-designated sex doesn't mean anything, you're right.

— Mollie (@MZHemingway) September 28, 2014