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There Are So Many Armed Cops on Subways That Now They’re Shooting Each Other

—The Intercept

New York City Mayor Eric Adams' electoral strategey largely consists of attempting to scare the hell out of New Yorkers over crime, and then over-policing in response. (Also turning a blind eye on police and fire department destruction, but that's for a later time.)

Well now, NYPD officers pursuing a turnstile jumper unleashed a volley of bullets at a turnstile jumper, shooting one officer and an innocent bystander, and using as a justification that said miscreant carried a knife: (Said knife has conveniently gone missing)

In a Brooklyn subway station on Sunday afternoon, police shot and injured three people and a fellow New York Police Department officer over a $2.90 fare. This is what safety and security looks like in Mayor Eric Adams’s New York, where problems of poverty and hardship are met with policing and state-sanctioned violence.

At around 3 p.m. Sunday, at the Sutter Avenue stop in Brownsville, Brooklyn, a 37-year-old man allegedly evaded paying the subway fare. According to reports, two police officers pursued this man up three flights of stairs and confronted him on the station platform. Police say the man pulled out a knife. Both officers opened fire on the man, piercing him with several bullets, while also striking two bystanders; one of the officers was hit with friendly fire. One of the bystanders, a 49-year-old man, is in critical condition in the hospital from a bullet wound to the head.

This is what happens when you flood a major transit system with a government-sanctioned, taxpayer-funded armed gang coated with official impunity and prone to violent escalation.

Yeah, firing into a crowd is not a good way to handle a turnstile jumper.

Hizonner Adams has no problem with that, because, in his world, if the NYPD must be allowed to engage in all sorts of corrupt and abusive sh%$, we will have anarchy.