NYPD also recently shot and killed a man, as well as injuring four others, for not paying the mentor 2.90 fare. The officers claimed he "threatened that he had a knife and charged at them" but eyewitness accounts and evidence point to the man not having a knife
NYPD then claimed someone stole the knife from the crimescene. Apprehended someone later they believed that stole the knife, the person they apprehended did have a knife by coincidence, as the "recovered" knife did not match what the officers said.
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David LaFauci, who said he was sitting across from Mickles when the 37-year-old entered a train that had pulled into the station during the confrontation, told Gothamist he heard officers order Mickles at least once to drop a knife before they all boarded.
“I never saw a knife, but I don’t think I saw both of his hands,” LaFauci said in a phone interview.
Mickles kept his hands behind his back as the officers gave him orders, according to LaFauci. The incident escalated when Mickles walked past the officers and back onto the platform, he said, and at least one officer fired his Taser before yelling “Taser, Taser, Taser.”
“He was walking away when they tased him, definitely,” said LaFauci. “I heard a bunch of pops, probably about eight, nine shots.
LaFauci said he then waited on the platform, assuming police would want to interview him about what had happened. But he said they never did, and he left the station without giving his name or phone number to investigators.
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NYPD then claimed someone stole the knife from the crimescene. Apprehended someone later they believed that stole the knife, the person they apprehended did have a knife by coincidence, as the "recovered" knife did not match what the officers said.
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David LaFauci, who said he was sitting across from Mickles when the 37-year-old entered a train that had pulled into the station during the confrontation, told Gothamist he heard officers order Mickles at least once to drop a knife before they all boarded.
“I never saw a knife, but I don’t think I saw both of his hands,” LaFauci said in a phone interview.
Mickles kept his hands behind his back as the officers gave him orders, according to LaFauci. The incident escalated when Mickles walked past the officers and back onto the platform, he said, and at least one officer fired his Taser before yelling “Taser, Taser, Taser.”
“He was walking away when they tased him, definitely,” said LaFauci. “I heard a bunch of pops, probably about eight, nine shots.
LaFauci said he then waited on the platform, assuming police would want to interview him about what had happened. But he said they never did, and he left the station without giving his name or phone number to investigators.
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Gothamist
NYPD says officers recovered wrong knife from police subway shooting in Brooklyn
Police first claimed a knife was recovered Sunday but reversed course Monday, saying they were searching for a man seen taking the weapon from the scene.
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