Police shoot man in NY street

First eye witness account:

On the dot of 10 on Wednesday morning, Anthony O’Grady, 26, stood in front of a Dunkin’ Donuts on Eighth Avenue in Manhattan. He heard a ruckus, some shouts, then saw a police officer chase a man into the street and shoot him down in the middle of the avenue.

 

Moments later, Mr. O’Grady spoke to a reporter for The New York Times and said the wounded man was in flight when he was shot. “He looked like he was trying to get away from the officers,” Mr. O’Grady said.

Second eye witness account:

Another person on Eighth Avenue then, Sunny Khalsa, 41, had been riding her bicycle when she saw police officers and the man. Shaken by the encounter, she contacted the Times newsroom with a shocking detail.

“I saw a man who was handcuffed being shot,” Ms. Khalsa said. “And I am sorry, maybe I am crazy, but that is what I saw.”

These were two eye witness reports given to local media...with one of them contacting the media on her own to tell the story of the handcuffed man that was gunned down in front of her.

As Paul Harvey famously said...here is the rest of the story.

Contrary to what Mr. O’Grady said, the man who was shot had not been trying to get away from the officers; he was actually chasing an officer from the sidewalk onto Eighth Avenue, swinging a hammer at her head. Behind both was the officer’s partner, who shot the man, David Baril.

 

And Ms. Khalsa did not see Mr. Baril being shot while in handcuffs; he is, as the video and still photographs show, freely swinging the hammer, then lying on the ground with his arms at his side. He was handcuffed a few moments later, well after he had been shot.

Video in this link...http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/15/nyregion/witness-accounts-in-midtown-hammer-attack-show-the-power-of-false-memory.html?_r=0

Ms. Khalsa’s response.

 

“I feel totally embarrassed,” she said on Thursday, after having seen the video.

 

She now believes that she saw the initial encounter and then looked away, as she was on her bicycle. In that moment, the man began the attack, which lasted about three seconds until he was shot. “I didn’t see the civilian run or swing a hammer,” she said. “In my mind I assumed he was just standing there passively, and now is on the ground in handcuffs.”

 

“With all of the accounts in the news of police officers in shootings, I assumed that police were taking advantage of someone who was easily discriminated against,” she added. “Based on what I saw, I assumed the worst. Even though I had looked away.”

 

Her own certainty was gone, Ms. Khalsa said.

 

“It makes me think about everything in life,” she said.

No surprise. We saw it in Baltimore with a Fox reporter.

I read about this story earlier. If I remember correctly this guy was being looked for due to numerous attacks with a hammer.

No surprise. We saw it in Baltimore with a Fox reporter.

 

I read about this story earlier. If I remember correctly this guy was being looked for due to numerous attacks with a hammer.

Correct. I've seen/read probably half a dozen articles about it. None of them mentioned any of what Jumper posted.

If you swing a hammer at a cop you're gonna get nailed.