The New York Police Department (NYPD) has a history of protecting bystanders by shooting them. This March, when Brooklyn man Nathan Scott tried to shoot a mugger who had his wallet, the NYPD killed Scott and wounded an auto mechanic across the street. In 2013, after a man in a road rage incident made finger guns and reached for his pocket, the NYPD tased the man and shot two women nearby. In 2012, after a disgruntled ex-employee murdered his coworker outside the Empire State Building, the NYPD shot the murderer along with nine bystanders.
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I can't find if the government employees were in uniform or not. Story is the perp jumped the turnstile and the government employees started following him. He flashed a knife and told them there would be trouble if they kept following him. Where they did a mag dump with a crowd of innocents down range. So sounds like they were in plain clothes. Remember undercover means a liar lying about who they are and what they are doing. Then the mensa member government employees let a bystander (that they surprisingly didn't shoot) pick up the knife and walk away from the scene. One story is it was a chef's knife, the perp worked as a cook. Others say it was a folding pocket knife.
ReplyDeleteLooks like it's back to the Rodman's Neck range for a little requalification turorial.
ReplyDeleteNeed to update the NYPD trigger pull. 100#. For safety.
ReplyDeleteI once tried a SIG with a "NYPD" trigger. Execrable, no wonder they shoot bystanders--such a bad trigger pull you couldn't keep the sights on target.
ReplyDeleteThey tried that crap in Mass., but when people could not pass Consealed Carry courses gunshops offered free upgrades by gunsmiths. It went away.
DeleteNow I know who they’ll hire as Stormtroopers in the next Star Wars movie.
ReplyDeleteWere the shooters diversity hires? Asking for a friend.
ReplyDelete"Mickles carried a pocket knife because he works as a chef at several restaurants around the city, Holloway, his mother, said. She said he lives in Harlem."
ReplyDeleteEvery aspect of this stinks.
The NYPD are probably in CYA-lyin-to-save-their-pension mode. Hopefully, witnesses (who weren't shot) can sort out the truth about the turnstiles jump, the threats, the knife, and why the tasers failed. NYPD now makes from $55K as a rookie to $130K as a veteran.
On the other hand, an average Manhattan executive chef makes around $120K. A sous-chef makes around $75K. Would a trained, skilled chef live in Harlem? Fun fact, a crime occurs every 32 minutes (on average) in Harlem. Pretty much all lower Manhattan is Violent Crime Central.
So the guy is not a "chef". More likely minimum wage kitchen staff.
Or maybe....he lied to his Mom about what he really does. And why he carries a knife and lives in Harlem. And why he "told the officers they would have to shoot him". Like a crazy person.