Gothamist: Queens Shooting: Videos from Air Train Station

bugz funnie

Fri, 15 Dec 2006 19:13:33 -0500

Odd, that's the first time I saw a person slide into a kneeling stance with his arms all akimbo and flaying. Looks like he slipped. Nothing wrong with that, we all slipped before. If he did slid into a kneel, why was he kneeling in the middle of a walkway/hallway? shouldn't he kneel behind cover? You make a lot of assumptions there. I only made one and that's the one where he slipped cutting a corner too tight.

Patrick

Fri, 15 Dec 2006 18:21:23 -0500

The cop slid into a kneel. you can see if clearly if you watch the first video, you see him get up from the slide into a kneeling stance. In the second video it only shows him go into the slide, but the slide is angled toward the middle of the doorway and not in the direction he'd have gone if he had fallen while running. A bunch of the people were behind the cover of the kiosk there. and the rest of the people were just feet from the other protective area with solid walls. There is no sound so people might have been yelling "get down, get down" or some such thing but we all know people are jackasses and just stand about "Huh what? HUH DUuuurrr" like that TSA guy who could have been smacked in the face with a sign that said 'Attention: Gun shot noise, exploding glass." and he still just stood there. TSA are USELESS. The cops getting to cover is their training. Notice PA cops dont just draw their guns to shoot 50 bullets in rapid fire at some unknown target, because they're better trained and better paid.

slide

Fri, 15 Dec 2006 13:06:51 -0500

It sure looks like the cop slid intentionally to me. Maybe he got the equivalent of rug burns from the floor.

Will

Fri, 15 Dec 2006 12:55:25 -0500

Gotta love the security guy in the foreground who is like, "huh? someone say something?". So we got people flying so close to Manhattan they can crash right into a building and we got security people who are no better than sleep walkers. Meanwhile when the cops aren't shooting someone they are running for door. All the while there is a person and a kid standing right in the open and nobody tells them to get down or move. Homeland security dollars at work. Nice.

fallen leaves

Fri, 15 Dec 2006 11:51:03 -0500

That's some video. I liked how the two PA cops just ran for their lives and not hit the deck. I think the heavier one cut a corner too sharply and slipped. That's the funny part. I'm guessing he's the one filing for disability. lucky bastid.

bklynd

Fri, 15 Dec 2006 11:33:26 -0500

Oh, and the post implies that that .mp3 file is the Port Authority video - but it's just the radio show.

dude

Fri, 15 Dec 2006 11:26:20 -0500

Democracy Now = Most boring newscast ever. Regardless, that's pretty messed up. By the way, I love how the PA cops did such a good job protecting everybody (run, piggy run!)

bklynd

Fri, 15 Dec 2006 11:24:48 -0500

There were early reports of "a guy who was there, but wasn't wearing a beige jacket like the police say he was." Perhaps this is him. He never says he was in the car. It's a somewhat lucid account of the way it may have gone down, though he's coy about a particular detail that people would want to know.

Elderta

Fri, 15 Dec 2006 11:13:49 -0500

I bet *some* people will be outraged now. /snark

if the glove don't fit

Fri, 15 Dec 2006 11:02:53 -0500

There was no fourth man but if there was, he didn't hear the police identify themselves? Who's running this show? O.J.?