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I searched and only found the original story where the police shot the 2 bystanders they pulled their weapons to shoot this man who was trying to kill himself and threw himself in front of a car. When he reached for his wallet, police thought he had a gun, opened fire and shot two bystanders.
Now they are charging the man with assault of the two women police shot.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/05/n...ce-near-times-square.html?smid=re-share&_r=1&
So this guy was mentally disturbed, believed he was speaking with dead relatives and wanted to commit suicide.
Seems to me like the police don't want to pay out in the civil case filed against them and are shifting the blame. One of the women believes the same way:
Now they are charging the man with assault of the two women police shot.
An unarmed, emotionally disturbed man shot at by the police as he was lurching around traffic near Times Square in September has been charged with assault, on the theory that he was responsible for bullet wounds suffered by two bystanders, according to an indictment unsealed in State Supreme Court in Manhattan on Wednesday.
The Manhattan district attorneys office persuaded a grand jury to charge Mr. Broadnax with assault, a felony carrying a maximum sentence of 25 years.
Broadnax was taken to Bellevue Hospital after they got him down and told police he was hearing voices of dead relatives and was trying to commit suicide.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/05/n...ce-near-times-square.html?smid=re-share&_r=1&
So this guy was mentally disturbed, believed he was speaking with dead relatives and wanted to commit suicide.
Seems to me like the police don't want to pay out in the civil case filed against them and are shifting the blame. One of the women believes the same way:
Mariann Wang, a lawyer representing Sahar Khoshakhlagh, one of the women who was wounded, said the district attorney should be pursuing charges against the two officers who fired their weapons in a crowd, not against Mr. Broadnax. Its an incredibly unfortunate use of prosecutorial discretion to be prosecuting a man who didnt even injure my client, she said. Its the police who injured my client.