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Who would have thought that unlike coppers, bullets don't discriminate.
"Friendly fire"... I love that term
I was just coming here to post this, found this news story which goes to impressive lengths to avoid making it clear what happened:
Multiple people were wounded when police opened fire Sunday on an armed suspect at a subway station in Brooklyn, NYPD officials said.
Police said the gunfire was reported just after 3 p.m. at the Sutter Avenue station in Brownsville.
Four people -- one police officer, a suspect and two civilians -- were hospitalized, according to the FDNY. Interim Police Commissioner Tom Donlon said the wounded officer, who was shot in the chest area below his left armpit, is at Brookdale Hospital and "is in good spirits and is expected to make a full recovery."
Donlon, along with Mayor Eric Adams, MTA CEO Janno Lieber and other top brass of the NYPD, addressed reporters at a news conference on Sunday evening.
"Make no mistake, the events that occurred on the Sutter Avenue station platform were the results of an armed perpetrator, who was confronted by officers doing the job we asked them to do," Donlon said. "There will be a full and thorough investigation conducted into this incident, as we always do in cases like this. But right now we are grateful that our officer will be OK."
The suspect, who officials said has more than 20 prior arrests and a significant history of mental illness, was shot multiple times. A male civilian was struck in the head and is listed in critical condition at Kings County Hospital and a female civilian was grazed and was being treated at Brookdale Hospital, police said.
"It started because somebody wanted to come to the transit system with a weapon, somebody who, as the mayor said, had a history of crime and a history of violence and even gun charges," Lieber said...
[And then right at the very end of the article]
"[The suspect] decided he wasn't going to go nicely with the officers and the officers were put in a very difficult situation to save themselves," Maddrey added.
Maddrey, who said the shooting will be investigated further by the Detective Squad and Force Investigation Division, was asked if the officer and civilians were wounded by friendly fire.
"I don't like to use that term friendly fire, but, absolutely, we believe at this time that our officers, our officers, were the only ones who discharged weapons at this time. I don't know if that'll change. So everyone that was struck this afternoon, we believe, was by our officers," Maddrey said.
Domestic censorship at its finest.NYPD officer, three others shot in apparent 'friendly fire' incident after man brandishes knife at Brooklyn subway station, cops say
The officers opened fire on an alleged subway fare evader who brandished a knife, police said. The only bullets fired appeared to have been by the officers, according to the chief of department.www.newsday.com
page isn;t working for me though
Domestic censorship at its finest.
When Gloria Holloway arrived at her Brownsville apartment on Monday morning, she was shocked to learn that her son was in the hospital because police had shot him at a Brownsville subway station on Sunday afternoon.
“Oh my God,” Holloway told a Gothamist reporter who had arrived at the apartment to ask about the incident. She said she was fresh off her night shift as a security guard.
Holloway picked up an NYPD business card that had been slipped under her apartment door.
“They just shot him, then didn’t bother to get in touch with anybody related to him?” said Holloway, who sometimes uses the first name Renee, as she stood in her living room. “And left a card here at the damn door?”
A spokesperson for the NYPD later said they did not know how Holloway was notified of the incident...
Witness video obtained by Gothamist shows a bloody scene where two men are lying on the floor of two separate train cars. Two injured men lying on the floor appear to be handcuffed, though police said only one man — Mickles — was suspected of a crime, fare evasion. It is NYPD protocol to handcuff a suspect after shooting the individual.
It’s unclear why multiple people appeared to be handcuffed, or what sequence of events resulted in people laying in separate train cars. Police did not address those details, or say why the Tasers used weren’t effective, at Sunday’s press conference. They have not answered further questions about the incident, which remains under investigation.
In a post on X on Sunday, Mayor Eric Adams only addressed the injury to an officer, without acknowledging who shot the officer.
“Earlier today, one of our officers was shot while protecting our subway system,” Adams wrote. “I am relieved to report he is in good condition now, and we have arrested the suspect who put so many lives in danger.”
Bit more on this:
Mom didn't know son was shot by NYPD in Brooklyn fare evasion pursuit
Four people were struck in the subway shooting, including a bystander who was hit in the head and an officer.gothamist.com
Two injured people handcuffed when only one is accused of a crime certainly makes it sound a lot like, after randomly shooting a bystander, the NYPD then decided to handcuff the person they'd just shot.
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