NYPD cop shot as gunfire erupts in Brooklyn’s Brownsville
“This is fast-moving, fast-paced and a stressful situation, and we did the best we could to protect our lives and the lives of people on that train,” NYPD Chief of Patrol John Chell told reporters Wednesday. NYPD brass defended the officers who opened fire Sunday at a Brooklyn subway station, leaving a cop and two bystanders injured.“However, again, we must correct the narrative that is out there that we went to that train station and shot someone because they did not pay a $2.90 fare,” he said.
The footage — which advocates such as the New York Civil Liberties Union have clamored for — will be released by the NYPD in the coming days, police officials pledged.The cops asked Mickles to leave, and he did so “voluntarily,” he said. The cops followed Mickles to the subway platform, where they yelled at him to show his hands and drop the knife 38 times, Chell said.Bodycam footage from the officers showed a tense showdown with fare beater Derrell Mickles, 37, who was carrying a knife on him moments before shots were fired.“He refuses to drop the knife and at this point, both officers discharged their Tasers,” he said.
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