Brooklyn cops shoot alleged fare-beater, also hit 2 bystanders and officer
www.nbcnewyork.com
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.

  • Kyrgizion@lemmy.world
    2293·
    3 days ago

    Ahh yes. Nothing like killing a perp and a few bystanders for a few dollars’ worth of fare. USA! USA!

    • Lets_Eat_Grandma@lemm.eeEnglish
      1248·
      3 days ago

      I think if people had even more guns this could have been avoided. What if there was a six year old with a 22 there to respond to the gunshots with some of his own? maybe less people would be dead.

      Guns make everyone way safer. We need to start providing them in utero.

    • TheFriar@lemm.ee
      8·
      2 days ago

      This has been an ongoing problem in the city. Fuckin Mayor Officer Landlord has been dumping millions into multiple cops sitting on platforms, on their phones, watching for people jumping the 2.90 fare. Which they just raised from 2.70. They’re more than spending what they’re hypothetically losing on fare jumpers. Neoliberal capitalist bullshit in action.

      • Cenzorrll@lemmy.world
        3·
        2 days ago

        Meanwhile in Albuquerque we’ve made buses free because the fare infrastructure costs more than to run the buses.

    • superkret@feddit.org
      117·
      3 days ago

      They stopped him for a few dollars’ worth of fare.
      They shot him for charging at them with a knife.

      • trashgirlfriend@lemmy.world
        252·
        3 days ago

        The uniformed duo followed the alleged fare-beater up the stairs to the elevated L train platform around 3 p.m., when they gave him commands to stop and turn around. 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.

        Where is this knife charge mentioned?

        • jpreston2005@lemmy.world
          3·
          2 days ago

          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.

          it was the next sentence from what you copied lol

      • ieatpillowtags@lemm.ee
        352·
        3 days ago

        We’ll see if that story pans out, I’m sure the body cam footage is coming any minute…

        • ObjectivityIncarnate@lemmy.world
          13·
          3 days ago

          The statement by the Department Chief literally references that there is body cam footage, that is the source of information for the statement.

          • Maggoty@lemmy.world
            23·
            3 days ago

            No no no. They mean the footage being released for public scrutiny. The police have lied about the body camera footage before.

    • bean@lemmy.world
      77·
      3 days ago

      I know it’s like that by headline, but they repeatedly tried to subdue him and eventually he charged at them with a knife after having said “I’ll kill you”. I don’t know I would hesitate to stop him without my gun if he suddenly ran at me with a knife. I’m just thinking survival, instinctively, and not about bystanders around me in that moment.

      • Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de
        251·
        3 days ago

        I’m just thinking survival, instinctively, and not about bystanders around me in that moment.

        Kind of fair point for yourself.

        However I expect more of a trained professional who has repeated firarms training. They should be sesitized to controlling their direction of fire even in an emergency.

        • Zink@programming.dev
          5·
          2 days ago

          It really is bizarre how many people seem to just accept lower standards for police than for random Joe gun owner off the street. It’s not confusing though; it’s just another facet of the great team sport of society for many people.

          If we’re supposed to value and respect our police, maybe we should actually expect good things from them!

        • Rinox@feddit.it
          2·
          2 days ago

          That’s not even the point. The training should have taught them how to de-escalate the situation, or even let it go. They transformed a 3$ fare skipped into a massacre, how’s that normal?

          It’s 3$, if he has a knife, just let him go, it’s not worth the risk. You’ll track him down later and get him without killing him, passerbys and other cops.

          You don’t need to drop a nuke because there’s a pickpocketer somewhere in the city

      • kralk@lemm.ee
        61·
        2 days ago

        Ok, so these people are too incompetent to win a 4v1 against an untrained opponent? Is this better somehow?

    • ObjectivityIncarnate@lemmy.world
      328·
      3 days ago

      They shot because the guy charged at them with a knife, not because of the fare. OP’s thread title is deliberately misleading, in a desperate attempt to twist this into ACAB fuel.

      Any bystander injuries are to be blamed on the aggressor Mr. Knifey.

      • Maggoty@lemmy.world
        271·
        3 days ago

        They chased someone into a train over 3 dollars. There is now hundreds of thousands of dollars of medical bills, possibly over a million. Because someone “stole” a 3 dollar fare.

        How the police react to stuff is absolutely up for debate. This is why we stopped doing car chases.

      • Kyrgizion@lemmy.world
        292·
        3 days ago

        The knife that mysteriously doesn’t show up on any footage and couldn’t be located after the fact?

        I know better than to believe police lies. It’s all they do. ACAB, no exceptions.

      • Malfeasant@lemm.ee
        3·
        2 days ago

        Until cops prove themselves trustworthy, I will assume they’re lying. They have a long way to go.