Four people were wounded at a Brooklyn subway station Sunday when police officers shot a man threatening them with a knife, and inadvertently sprayed bullets that hit passengers, authorities said.
The people struck by gunfire included two innocent bystanders, one of the officers and the man with the blade, who the police initially confronted because he hadn’t paid his fare, officials said.
One of the passengers, a 49-year-old man, was hospitalized in critical condition after a bullet passed into an adjoining subway car and struck his head.
Legally a mass shooting
Yeah the title sucks. It should be “4 people wounded by police gunfire during confrontation with man armed with knife.” The guy with the knife didn’t injure anybody and the title doesn’t make that clear.
Why? The people weren’t injured by cops. The cops were nearby when their service weapons shot bullets at a deadly armed suspect. They can’t be held accountable for the suspect’s actions! He made their guns fire. \s
Honestly the cops were barely involved. They’re practically victims here, at least as much if not more than the people who were shot. \s
I’m sure that s stands for police union spokesperson.
And this is what people mean when they say the title is using the “cop tense”.