Unarmed Man Charged With Assault Because NYC Police Shot At Him And Hit Random People

[Feuer Frei!]

Interesting. From a few perspectives.


So sticking your hand in your pocket can be construed as a felony, in New York.

Sounds a bit like Gran Torino, Clint Eastwood-style.

Trigger-happy? Crowded area? Possibility of innocent bystanders being hit?

All reality, it seems:

An emotionally disturbed but unarmed man walks into heavy traffic near Times Square. Police officers arrive on the scene and try to apprehend him. The unarmed man reaches into his pocket, prompting police to open fire in a crowded area. Man is unwounded but two bystanders are shot

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[Sailor Steve]

Were these cops trigger-happy, undertrained or just insane?

A lucky thing more people weren't hurt or killed. I did like the humor in the author's line "...but not before two pedestrians had been shot in an effort to ensure their safety."

[Stealhead]

Yeah the same agency that allows "stop and frisk".

[kraznyi_oktjabr]

This linked in Feuer's article is also interesting:

Originally Posted by Ken White

As long as you ignore the fact that the shooting victims were innocent bystanders, hitting two people with three shots represents unusual excellence in marksmanship for the NYPD, matching another recent incident in which skilled NYPD officers were able to hit their target and nine bystanders with only 16 bullets. Overall the NYPD usually requires about 331 rounds to hit 54 targets, of which 14 will be innocent bystanders, 24 will be dogs, and 16 will be people the NYPD was actually aiming at. Statistically, if you aren't a dog, it is slightly more dangerous to be the person the NYPD was shooting at than a bystander (16 people out of 331 shots for intended targets for a 4.8% hit rate vs. 14 people out of 331 shots for bystanders, a 4.2% hit rate.) NYPD has a better success rate for other weapons, and certain factors, like shooting unarmed people in the back, tend to increase hit rates.

Read the whole thing. There are also links to news coverage of NYPD's finest days.

[Jimbuna]

Sounds like someone oopsied

[Wolferz]

HALT! Don't make me shoot bystanders!

More proof that New York City is an insane asylum.
Time to build the wall, block the bridges and call in Snake Plissken.
I guess Mayor Bloomturd will outlaw Metro cards next.

[Moonlight]

Originally Posted by kraznyi_oktjabr

This linked in Feuer's article is also interesting:
Read the whole thing. There are also links to news coverage of NYPD's finest days.

Blimey, one woman kneecapped and the other one got it in the ass, a poor show of law enforcement by the NYPD.

[GoldenRivet]

NYC is a strange place, last time i was there i was riding in a rickshaw bike, the biker moved over to avoid a parked car and as he was in the process of moving over to the right he almost made contact with a slow moving cop car in heavy traffic.

the cop has his window rolled down and looked right at the driver of the rickshaw "Hey, watch it a-hole" (edited for subsim readers)

I was quite surprised the cop said that

Stay classy New York