We are not perfect,” said John Chell, the Police Department’s chief of patrol, as protesters gathered in Union Square.

Protesters jumped the subway turnstiles in Union Square to bring attention to what they say was a reckless reaction by the NYPD for shooting a man over doing the same thing.

Nearly 20 people were arrested in a protest that spawned at a Brooklyn subway station where four people were shot, including two bystanders, when NYPD officers opened fire during a confrontation with an alleged fare-beater over the weekend,

It was very reckless of them to be shooting in a crowded train station,” a friend of Gregory Delpeche said of the NYPD

The Brooklyn man who allegedly charged at police officers with a knife on Sunday had already had one interaction with police for reportedly dodging the MTA fare, the NYPD said. NYPD Interim Police Commissioner Thomas G.

The NYPD plans to release body-worn camera footage from Sunday’s chaotic police shooting inside a Brooklyn subway station later this week, in coordination with the district attorney’s office, officials said.

A previous version of this story misstated the severity of the bystander’s injury. The story has been updated. BROOKLYN, N.Y. (PIX11) – A bystander who was shot by police officers while they pursued a man accused of fare evasion in a Brooklyn subway station suffered brain damage,