Video shows the NYPD firing nine shots at a subway car

Supervision and body CCTV footage released by the New York Police Department on Friday captured the chaotic scene that unfolded last weekend on a subway platform in Brooklyn, when a pair of police officers shot at a would-be turnstile jumper, hitting bystanders.

CCTV footage shows a man identified by police as 37-year-old Derrell Mickles jumping the turnstile at the Sutter Avenue train station near Brownsville on September 15, allegedly without paying. Minutes after being approached by NYPD officers Alex Wong and Edmund Mays, Mickles comes back through the turnstile, holding a knife in his right hand.

Mickles returns a few minutes later and enters the station through the emergency gate. He is followed again 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 not to touch him, and then backs into an oncoming train car.

The officers follow Mickles onto 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 cannot stop Mickles, who walks off the train.

Footage from Mays’ body camera briefly shows Mickles running toward him with the knife in his right hand. He has stopped running by the time the two officers open fire at close range.

They fire a total of nine shots, hitting Mickles, who falls down. Mays can be heard telling Wong, “I got shot.”

Gregory Delpeche, 49, a bystander riding the subway to work, was also shot by a stray bullet. according to the Associated Press. He was taken to a hospital in critical condition, where he underwent skull surgery to reduce swelling from a gunshot wound to his head.

Delpeche’s attorney, Keith White, told JS on Saturday that his client remains in critical condition.

He commented on the video saying that Mickles “was retreating when he was shot by members of the NYPD.”

White said that during the altercation, Delpeche was led to another part of the train, where he was shot by members of the NYPD.

“Our city’s leadership is failing,” White said. “They are not providing first responders with the adequate tools to deal with EDPs (emotionally disturbed persons) and they are not taking responsibility for making our city perform better.”

Another bystander, a 26-year-old woman, was hit by a bullet. Both Mays and the woman are in stable condition. local news website Gothamist reported.

At one press conference Wednesday, NYPD Chief of Police John Chell described the shooting as a “tragic situation” and defended the actions of his officers.

“We did our best to protect our lives and the lives of the people on the train,” he said.

Mickles pleaded not guilty to attempted assault, criminal possession of a weapon, threatening a police officer and fare evasion.

Mickles’ attorney, Jonathan Fink, told Gothamist that his client is in the hospital and cannot walk.