‘Totally Innocent’ Unarmed Man Shot Dead by New York Police
Police say two officers were conducting a “vertical patrol” in the Pink Houses complex in the East New York neighborhood of Brooklyn. Bratton said one officer, reportedly with 18 months’ experience on the job, appeared to have accidentally fired on a darkened stairwell between the seventh and eighth floors.
The NYPD really needs to clarify exactly what happened and what it means by saying that the officer accidentally fired. Firing your weapon in a darkened stairway because you’re scared shitless, inexperienced and possibly poorly trained doesn’t qualify as accidental to me. To be clear, I don’t know what happened but the above description is my best guess based on the information released so far.
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