NYT: After police bullets hit bystanders, questions about protocol (Photo: Andrew Kelly  /  Getty Images) NEW YORK — The encounter was breathtakingly brief: a surveillance video showed a gunman outside the Empire State Building on Friday pulling a pistol, pointing it at two police officers, their firing at him and his falling to the sidewalk. All the yelling and cries of pain occurred out of camera view, just north of where the gunman, Jeffrey T. Johnson, collapsed and died: nine bystanders were struck, cradling bloody arms or lying on the sidewalks and curbs. Read the complete story.
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NYT: After police bullets hit bystanders, questions about protocol

(Photo: Andrew Kelly  /  Getty Images)

NEW YORK — The encounter was breathtakingly brief: a surveillance video showed a gunman outside the Empire State Building on Friday pulling a pistol, pointing it at two police officers, their firing at him and his falling to the sidewalk.

All the yelling and cries of pain occurred out of camera view, just north of where the gunman, Jeffrey T. Johnson, collapsed and died: nine bystanders were struck, cradling bloody arms or lying on the sidewalks and curbs.

Read the complete story.

Source: MSNBC

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