When I shared this story a couple days ago the cops were still in damage control mode, so they explicitly claimed a bystander was "grazed on the head". That person is now still in critical condition for being actually shot in the head by a cop.
Cops lie. Cops always fucking lie.
On my post i saw a couple of people go like, "4 bystanders shot for one guy with a knife, ACAB". Please check how you read these types of news items. It is, by far, much more likely that the suspect never had a knife at all, and remember, his only SUSPECTED crime before that was evading a $2.90 fare. Cops lie.
If you are starting the day just taking the metro, trying to avoid the transit fare, you are not ending that day by charging wildly with a knife at multiple cops who have their guns drawn. That's just not a real thing that happens. Noone thinks "FUCK, a minor fine! I'm gonna stab a cop about it!". If that person had exhibited any dangerous behaviour before the cops started shooting dont you think THAT would have been the headliner?
Newspapers love that kinda story: "Screaming knife-wielder shot by hero cops!", would have been the title if he even had been having a mental breakdown and shouting at other passengers, or if anyone had called-in for him having a knife.
Instead we get descriptions like: "Police reported that an officer and various persons had been struck by bullets".
The cops, and the press that covers for them, always lie.
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