Brooklyn cops shoot alleged fare-beater, also hit 2 bystanders and officer
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Four people were injured Sunday afternoon at a Brooklyn subway stop in what started as officers’ attempts to apprehend a man accused of skipping the station turnstile.

Police opened fire on a subway platform in Brooklyn during a confrontation with an alleged fare-beater, striking the man cops said was armed with a knife, two straphangers caught in the fray, and one of the firing officers, NYPD officials said Sunday.

One of those two passengers hit by the cops’ bullets, a 49-year-old man, was hospitalized in critical condition after he was hit struck in the head, according to the NYPD.

The two officers who opened fire were assigned to patrol the Sutter Avenue subway stop in the 73rd precinct when they spotted a man skip the station turnstile and walk through an open gate toward the train platform, Chief of Department Jeffrey Maddrey explained at an evening press conference from Brookdale Hospital.

  • supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz
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    2 days ago

    Americans are the worst culture. Truly fucking despicable what they think is sane. You only get to buy how you want to be treated and the threshold for the floor of basic human dignity is more than most of us can afford.

    As someone from the US I wholeheartedly agree but I also want to qualify this a bit.

    US culture is the worst culture given how rich it is. You might go to another culture with a HELL of a lot less money in the society (…because it has been extracted by countries like the US but whatever) /moving through the GDP and be able to find aspects of that culture that are way worse… but more than any other country on earth the US has been able to choose the world it wants to exist in, and holy shit what the US has done with that is not only dumb it is catastrophic.

    The US is the richest country on earth, we could be treating each other like royalty, we could be saying “it is unamerican to let homeless americans starve!!” and just started giving people housing and food for free, we could do whatever the fuck we want with all of our incredible amount of power and just ignore the consequences for the rest of the world… but instead not only do we ignore the consequences of our life style on the rest of the world (again, utterly catastrophic in terms of carbon footprint, ecological impact and just plain wastefulness) we ignore the consequences of our life style on our own damn selves, our family, our kids, our parents, our neighbors and our friends.

    Like yeah I know I am not saying anything original but damn I just feel like it needs to be said over and over again.