Shooting Spree in front of Empire State Building today

[John L]

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You got that as the final info or the article?

The article was minutes old from the event happening. Details have not been fully released last time I checked, which was yesterday.

You really think the cops were shooting wildly? You do realize just how crowded a NYC street is in front of the Empire State building, don't you?

Dear, some people will do practically anything to cover up the truth, no matter how enlightening: Empire State Building shooting victim says NYPD fired 'randomly' into street. And since the Brits have no dog in this fight, we can depend on them to look dispassionately at things.

Questions have been raised over the New York police department's handling of a shooting near the Empire State Building after armed officers injured nine passers-by as they pursued a gunman who had just shot dead his former boss.

One of those injured by police told the Guardian that officers appeared to fire "randomly" as they confronted Jeffrey Johnson, 58, minutes after a workplace dispute escalated into a chaotic shootout in one of the busiest parts of Manhattan.

Reports suggest that while Johnson drew his gun when he was confronted by officers, he did not fire; all those injured appear to have been shot by police. The New York police commissioner, Raymond Kelly, said officers had no choice but to act as they did: police discharged 14 rounds and the gunman died at the scene.

And from one the Police victims:

Robert Asika was among those wounded, shot in the elbow from a distance of around eight feet by one of the two police officers who confronted Johnson. He accused police of "shooting randomly", and said he saw at least two others hit by police bullets.

"If you're gonna aim try and aim perfectly. If you wanna aim at the target, you got to know what you're doing because it's the street," Asika said. "I could have been dead right now. I could have been dead."

Just imagine all the fun I am missing, by not living in that cultural heaven.

Yep, New York's finest.