Within a single week in September, two people in mental health crisis were fatally shot by NYPD officers at Times Square and the Brooklyn Bridge — two of the most witnessed places on earth. Neither was armed with a firearm, yet both encounters collapsed into lethal force within seconds. The deaths arrive not as isolated events but as a recurring question the city has never fully answered: how does a society protect its most vulnerable members from the very response meant to protect them?
Two Fatal NYPD Shootings Raise Questions About Police Response to Mental Health Crises
Two people were fatally shot by NYPD officers in separate incidents within one week.