New York — New York City police released body-worn camera footage of officers shooting and killing a man carrying a machete Three people were stabbed At Grand Central subway station last month.
the Video clip A post on the department’s YouTube page on Friday shows officers confronting Anthony Griffin after he randomly stabbed three people at the 42nd Street-Grand Central subway station, which connects to Grand Central Terminal.
The uniformed officers, identified in the video as Detectives Ryan Giuffre and Anthony Manetta, were seen confronting the 44-year-old as he walked up the stairs carrying a large knife at about 9:40 a.m. on April 11.
They order Griffin to drop the weapon several times, but Geoffrey pulls his gun while Griffin continues to hold the knife high near his head.
Griffin then retreats down the stairs but begins moving toward the officers with the knife still above his head as they begin to pursue him.
“Nobody wants to hurt you,” Giuffre says in the video. “We can talk about it. Get down. Get down. Dude, I’m never asking you again. Please. Please. Please. Get down!”
But Griffin continues to scream and move erratically toward the officers while holding the large blade up.
“I don’t want to be here. They shot me,” he said at one point. “I am Lucifer,” he says elsewhere.
Geoffrey then fired two shots at Griffin, who immediately fell to the ground. He was taken to the hospital where he was pronounced dead.
Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch said at the time of the incident that officers ordered Griffin to drop the knife at least 20 times but he refused to comply.
“Our officers encountered an armed individual who had already injured several people and was still a threat,” she said. “They gave clear orders. They tried to stop the escalation. When this threat did not stop, they took decisive action to stop it and to protect New Yorkers on one of the busiest train platforms in the city.”
The three stabbing victims — an 84-year-old man, a 65-year-old man, and a 70-year-old woman — suffered injuries including “significant lacerations to the head and face” and a fractured skull, though the injuries were not considered life-threatening, Tesch said.