Brooklyn cops shoot alleged fare-beater, also hit 2 bystanders and officer
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Four people were injured Sunday afternoon at a Brooklyn subway stop in what started as officers’ attempts to apprehend a man accused of skipping the station turnstile.

Police opened fire on a subway platform in Brooklyn during a confrontation with an alleged fare-beater, striking the man cops said was armed with a knife, two straphangers caught in the fray, and one of the firing officers, NYPD officials said Sunday.

One of those two passengers hit by the cops’ bullets, a 49-year-old man, was hospitalized in critical condition after he was hit struck in the head, according to the NYPD.

The two officers who opened fire were assigned to patrol the Sutter Avenue subway stop in the 73rd precinct when they spotted a man skip the station turnstile and walk through an open gate toward the train platform, Chief of Department Jeffrey Maddrey explained at an evening press conference from Brookdale Hospital.

  • ObjectivityIncarnate@lemmy.world
    312·
    2 days ago

    [Chief] Maddrey said during a verbal altercation, they “became aware of a knife.” Body-worn camera footage, which Maddrey said he reviewed before the press conference, allegedly showed the man make a verbal threat to the officers. He told the cops, “I’m going to kill you if you don’t stop following me,” the chief said. As the encounter continued to escalate, a northbound L train pulled into the station. The train cars opened and the man jumped inside, according to police. Maddrey said the officers followed the man, each firing a Taser which proved ineffective in subduing the man. He then exited the train while it was still at the station and charged the officers with the knife, the chief said.

    Cops clearly did nothing wrong in shooting at a guy charging at them with a knife–anyone would be justified in doing so, cop or not. Bystander injuries are on the aggressor’s hands.

    Also:

    Mayor Eric Adams, who also attended the briefing, described the knife-wielding man as a “career criminal” with over 20 arrests.

    Shhhhhhhhhhhocking!

    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      101·
      2 days ago

      Bystander injuries are on the aggressor’s hands.

      Excited to see the NYPD press b charges on the turnstile jumper for the cop who shot the other cop.

    • dubyakay@lemmy.ca
      114·
      2 days ago

      USA is the only shit hole in the world where you can get shot for fare evasion.

        • dubyakay@lemmy.ca
          11·
          1 day ago

          The country has barely measurable mental health care and social network. The dude that brandished the knife would probably have been somewhere else if these were in place. How many other countries have you heard of where this could have happened? Someone jumps turnstiles, they are unhinged and feel cornered by the pigs so they brandish a knife at them.

          This regularly happens in the US and nowhere else, yet it’s also the country that is unable to deal with it. Just need to have slightly more IQ than average to put 1+1 together.