Four people were injured Sunday afternoon at a Brooklyn subway stop in what started as officers’ attempts to apprehend a man accused of skipping the station turnstile.

This likely means that the knife never existed in the first place, and was made up by the cops in order to justify shooting into a crowd.

  • jordanlund@lemmy.world
    1042·
    3 months ago

    Man, even the article can’t get the story straight…

    “NYPD can’t find knife”…

    “the department put out a request seeking the public’s help to find the knife”…

    “a man believed to have swiped the suspect’s knife”…

    “Video circulating on social media appears to show the man scoop up the knife”…

    OK, that’s all consistent…

    “the NYPD posted on X that the knife had been “recovered” following the police shooting.”

    Um, no.

    "Below is a picture of the weapon recovered from the scene of today’s incident. pic.twitter.com/D3AZjNr4cL

    — NYPD NEWS (@NYPDnews) September 15, 2024"

    Recovered? But then…

    “Now, they are seeking the individual potentially in possession of the weapon”… Did you or did you not recover the weapon?

    “the now-missing knife”… OK, so NOT recovered.

    • silence7@slrpnk.netOP
      85·
      3 months ago

      The current position of the NYPD is that some random black guy wandering past a crime scene after the cops shot up a crowd decided to steal the knife that the cops considered to be key evidence. This is, to put it mildly, somewhat less credible than the claim that a crow tried to steal a murder weapon.

    • KoboldCoterie@pawb.socialEnglish
      39·
      3 months ago

      “the department put out a request seeking the public’s help to find the knife”

      Translation: “We’d love someone to come forward with a knife and claim it’s from the crime scene, so we can cover our asses.”

    • Maggoty@lemmy.world
      18·
      3 months ago

      The police have not been a credible source of information since the BLM protests. I’m sure they lied all the time before that too but that period really put a light on how much they lie. It’s their first instinct in any situation, just deny anything wrong happened and cast aspersions on the victim’s character.

    • Bertuccio@lemmy.world
      4·
      3 months ago

      By “recovered” the cops unironically mean the opposite of recovered - as in a non-police person has taken the knife.

      I can’t tell from just this article if I should lean more to standard cop butchering of language or intentional deception.

      EDIT: Or not? I found another article that says they retracted that statement about recovering the knife - that it was the wrong knife. That definitely doesn’t make me less suspicious…