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.

    • jpreston2005@lemmy.world
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      2 days ago

      What I want to understand is how the cops shot themselves… were they facing each other with the perp in between them?

    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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      3 days ago

      When aiming into a crowd of people? You’d have to be an exceptional marksman to hit your target. Of course, there’s the question of why you’re firing into a crowd to begin with.

      • istanbullu@lemmy.ml
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        3 days ago

        Of course, there’s the question of why you’re firing into a crowd to begin with.

        that was my question