Police Wound Two Bystanders

Saturday evening in Times Square, two relatively new police officers shot two innocent bystanders while trying to subdue a person of interest. 

Two police officers who had been on the force for a year and a half, and 3 years were confronted by an agitated man Saturday evening.  The man mimicked shooting the police officers, then one officer fired one shot and the other fired two.  The suspicious man was not wounded, but two innocent bystanders were.  A 54 year old woman for Manhattan was shot in the leg, fracturing her tibia and fibula. And another woman was grazed on her buttock.

People are saying that Glenn Broadnax, the suspicious man was walking into the intersections, apparently trying to get hit by a car. He was hit by three different cars. That is when the police intervened.  Apparently, everyone who witnessed the shooting was rather confused as to why the police were even shooting at the man.  One person even said “Don’t shoot him no more.”  The woman who was shot in the leg has to undergo surgery. 

I chose this article because it was just so shocking to me.  From a young age, we are taught that police officers are the good guys, and that they are here to protect us.  From what I could tell, the police officers had no reason to be shooting at that man.  And the fact that they don’t have well enough aim to actually hit their target is unsettling.  They should have undergone significant training in order to perfect their aim. Hopefully, the two women are okay and thee two police officers are reprimanded for their actions. 

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/16/nyregion/firing-at-man-in-times-square-police-wound-two-bystanders.html?_r=0