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From: pothead@snakebite.com
On 2024-03-16, I did WHAT? - Abe L. wrote:
> NEW YORK -- A man was shot multiple times and critically wounded on a New
> York City subway train as it arrived at a busy station in downtown
> Brooklyn on Thursday, panicking evening rush hour passengers.
>
> The shooting came a week after Gov. Kathy Hochul sent the National Guard
> into the subway system to help police search people for weapons after a
> series of high-profile crimes on city trains.
>
> Authorities said Thursdays shooting involved two men who police have not
> identified and who got into a confrontation, and then a physical fight,
> aboard the moving train just before 4:45 p.m.
>
> One of the men, who police said was 36, pulled out a gun and brandished
> it. The other man, 32, got possession of the handgun and fired at the
> person he was arguing with, according to Michael Kemper, the Police
> Departments chief of transit.
>
> The 32-year-old fired multiple shots, striking the 36-year-old, Kemper
> said at a media briefing.
>
> Witnesses told police the man who was shot was being aggressive and
> provocative toward the other one before the fight broke out, Kemper said.
>
> The shooting happened at a stop where the NYPD has a small office, and
> officers were on the platform and quickly took the suspect into custody.
>
> Video posted on social media by an ABC News journalist who was aboard the
> train when it happened shows passengers crouched on the floor as officers
> are heard shouting on the platform.
>
> Another video posted by a passenger shows the minutes leading up the
> shooting. A man paces about the crowded car and threatens to beat up a
> seated man. They fight until someone breaks it up. But the shouting
> continues, and one man pulls what appears to be a gun out of his jacket.
> Stop! Stop! passengers yell.
>
> The video does not show the actual shooting, though several loud bangs can
> be heard over the commotion of the passengers. Riders rush out when the
> doors open.
>
> The real victims are the people I saw in those videos who were having a
> harrowing time because theyre on a train with somebody with a gun,
> Metropolitan Transportation Authority Chairman Janno Lieber said at a news
> briefing.
>
> Lieber said it was outrageous that someone would bring a gun on a train
> and start a fight. He said it showed the importance of current city and
> state efforts to get guns off the street.
>
> Hochul deployed 750 members of the National Guard last week to assist city
> police with bag checks at entrances to busy train stations. The Democrat
> acknowledged that calling in uniformed service members was as much about
> sending a public message as it was about making mass transit safer.
>
> Violence in the subway system is rare, with major crimes dropping nearly
> 3% from 2022 to 2023 and killings falling from 10 to five during the same
> span, according to police.
>
> But serious incidents have attracted attention, such as a passenger's
> slashing of a subway conductor in the neck last month.
>
> https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/man-shot-gun-critically-wounded-after-
> fight-aboard-108136815
Yea, and horse face Hochul ordered the National Guard not to carry military
weapons.
What a joke.
--
pothead
Tommy Chong For President 2024.
Crazy Joe Biden Is A Demented Imbecile.
Impeach Joe Biden 2022.
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