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I live in NYC, and I read this story yesterday, and they didn't shoot the guy for hopping the turnstile / not paying the $2.90, they chased him and tried to give him a $100-150 fine; but the guy lunged at them with a knife.
The cops panicked and began firing because they don't have H2H training, and their aim is obviously shit. It's so shit, that I think they missed their taser shot as well before hitting random people in the crowd with their sidearms.
Not defending the police but the meme's a gross oversimplification. Those guys need more training and probably a suspension until they finish a full course of training, or a dismissal (or perhaps even up to and including manslaughter charges) depending on if the bystanders live or not.
I wish shit like this wasn't as common as it is. So many innocent people and dogs die each month due to police incompetence.
Isn't part of the controversy that its questionable there was even a knife involved?
Yeah, that part is bizarre
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c93y74xl1wvo
So they just accidentally recovered some unrelated knife, thinking it was the suspect's knife, while failing to recover his actual knife that he charged them with. I don't know what the truth is, but that story is genuinely ridiculous.