Four people were wounded at a Brooklyn subway station Sunday when police officers shot a man threatening them with a knife, and inadvertently sprayed bullets that hit passengers, authorities said.

The people struck by gunfire included two innocent bystanders, one of the officers and the man with the blade, who the police initially confronted because he hadn’t paid his fare, officials said.

One of the passengers, a 49-year-old man, was hospitalized in critical condition after a bullet passed into an adjoining subway car and struck his head.

  • @ASDraptor@lemmy.autism.place
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    513 months ago

    Manual to de-escalating potentially dangerous situations for an American policeman:

    Whatever the threat is, grab your gun and open fire until you feel there is no more threat incoming.

    Idk man, in a normal country, a police officer would be interrogated for drawing their gun in a fucking train station full of people. FOR DRAWING IT. But here we have a couple of “heroes” that open fire in a fucking train station against a guy who didn’t pay the ticket and apparently it’s all fine.