Surveillance and body camera footage released by the New York Police Department on Friday captured the chaotic scene that unfolded on a Brooklyn subway platform last weekend when a pair of police officers shot at an alleged turnstile jumper, striking bystanders in the process. CCTV footage shows a man police identified as 37-year-old Derrell Mickles jumping over the turnstile at the Sutter Avenue train station in the neighborhood of Brownsville on Sept. 15, allegedly without paying.
Minutes after being approached by NYPD officers Alex Wong and Edmund Mays, Mickles comes back through the turnstile, displaying a knife in his right hand. Mickles returns minutes later and enters the station through the emergency gate. He is once again followed by Wong and Mays.
Footage from Wong’s bodycam shows officers approaching Mickles, who has his hands behind his back, and ordering him to drop his knife. Mickles responds to the officers by telling them to leave him alone and to not touch him, then backs into an approaching train car. The officers follow Mickles into the train and order him to drop the knife.
Mickles tells the officers to “shoot” before one of them fires a stun gun at him. This fails to stop Mickles, who walks out of the train. Footage from Mays’ body camera briefly shows Mickles running towards him with the knife in his right hand.
He has stopped running by the time that the two officers open fire at close range. They fire a total of nine shots and hit Mickles, who .