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.
I feel like every comment or joke I could possibly make is already obvious to everyone the second everyone read the story.
So instead I’m going to scream into this pillow, cry uncontrollably, and then punch these pancakes as I try to come to grips with how this situation will have zero real long lasting consequences for the cops responsible.
Thank goodness the cops were there, that lunatic could’ve really hurt somebody!
Which one? The guy that didn’t pay his fare? Or the innocent bystander shot in the head? Or the other person grazed by a bullet? Or the other cop who also got shot by his fellow officer during the unprofessional spray of gunfire?
What about the people who charge you for the train service and profit from it? Ain’t nobody thinking of the poor capitalist here?!
Oh yeah true, wouldn’t someone think of Janno Lieber? The head of the MTA that has a salary equaling the president of the United States?
https://gothamist.com/news/mta-chair-janno-lieber-makes-as-much-money-as-president-biden
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.
So one of the cops shot the other cop in the torso? Talk about a well trained police force. It’s like something out of Naked Gun. And clearly the cops being there clearly made the situation much worse and injured more people. These stooges should never carry a gun again.
I’m sure NYC will be on the hook for a few lawsuits out of this one situation alone that will at least get into the low millions! Great job NYPD for a subway fare!
They don’t care. After all, you know who’s paying those lawsuits? Yep, you guessed right: taxpayers. So every NYC citizen is going to pay for what these fuckwads did.
The L.A. subway has no turnstiles. It essentially works on the honor system. There are transit cops that will ask for your ticket, but, and this is the LAPD we’re talking about, this sort of shit does not happen.
This specific interaction would have never happened if public transportation was provided free of cost.
If those Innocent Bystanders DIDNT want to get Shot they Shouldn’t have been Around a Petty Criminal at that EXACT MOMENT! THE COPS DID NOTHING WRONG! I LOVE BOOT FLAVOR!
Surely I misread the title. The wounded were all stabbed, surely. Nope… Cops open fired hit the suspect, 2 randos (one of which was hit in the head), and a friggin cop. All started by suspect not paying the fare. Cops made the whole situation infinitely worse than had they not showed up.
Legally a mass shooting
Yeah the title sucks. It should be “4 people wounded by police gunfire during confrontation with man armed with knife.” The guy with the knife didn’t injure anybody and the title doesn’t make that clear.
And this is what people mean when they say the title is using the “cop tense”.
Why? The people weren’t injured by cops. The cops were nearby when their service weapons shot bullets at a deadly armed suspect. They can’t be held accountable for the suspect’s actions! He made their guns fire. \s
Honestly the cops were barely involved. They’re practically victims here, at least as much if not more than the people who were shot. \s
I’m sure that s stands for police union spokesperson.
It hurt itself (and two innocents) in its confusion
Jfc. The guy doesn’t pay his fare so cops let loose with their service weapons, spraying people with bullets.
As always, ACAB.
Most normal police shooting this week.
This is literally why they exist. They’re the enforcement arm of Capital.
If I would be a complete psychopath, who wants nothing more than hurting and killing people, AND get away with it, I would join the police.
And looking at the frequency of how often shit like this happens, I’m probably not the first one with this idea.
What a fucking headline.
Actually…
“Cop recklessly shoots multiple innocent people in dense public area, including one bystander shot in the head, missing their intended target who was a suspected farejumper that they confronted, escalating the otherwise nonviolent situation in a very unsafe area.”
“DROP THE KNIFE OR I SHOOT EVERYBODY!”
