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NYPD can't find knife at center of Brooklyn subway bystander shooting (www.nbcnewyork.com)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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This likely means that the knife never existed in the first place, and was made up by the cops in order to justify shooting into a crowd.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Oops I did it again

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 month ago (5 children)

are they just training them now to shout something about their life being in danger before they pull the trigger?

like south parks "theyre coming right for us!"

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago (2 children)

No no, just feeling like they're in danger is fine now.

If you yell something, you might spook the person you're intending to shoot who is, for example, simply holding their wallet.

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I know I have definitely been waiting for the inevitable video from someone there that disproves anything the cops said.

And I kinda hate having that feeling, to be honest. We shouldn’t feel that way.

But as we’ve seen time and again, cops’ word often can’t be taken as proof without some video to back it up.

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[–] [email protected] 103 points 1 month ago (10 children)

Man, even the article can't get the story straight...

"NYPD can't find knife"...

"the department put out a request seeking the public's help to find the knife"...

"a man believed to have swiped the suspect's knife"...

"Video circulating on social media appears to show the man scoop up the knife"...

OK, that's all consistent...

"the NYPD posted on X that the knife had been "recovered" following the police shooting."

Um, no.

"Below is a picture of the weapon recovered from the scene of today’s incident. pic.twitter.com/D3AZjNr4cL

— NYPD NEWS (@NYPDnews) September 15, 2024"

Recovered? But then...

"Now, they are seeking the individual potentially in possession of the weapon"... Did you or did you not recover the weapon?

"the now-missing knife"... OK, so NOT recovered.

[–] [email protected] 85 points 1 month ago (3 children)

The current position of the NYPD is that some random black guy wandering past a crime scene after the cops shot up a crowd decided to steal the knife that the cops considered to be key evidence. This is, to put it mildly, somewhat less credible than the claim that a crow tried to steal a murder weapon.