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A 62 year old man was shot and killed by the police after he threatened them with an ax. The NY Times says that neighbors called 911 about a "man armed with an ax in the courtyard." When the police got to the Bronx apartment Anatoly Dmitriev, they heard him threaten his 41 year old son's life. So the cops broke down the door, but Dmitriev went out the fire escape. The police shot him when he refused to drop the ax.
Some neighbors describe Dmitriev as mentally ill, and and we did think of Gidone Busch, the mentally ill man holding a hammer killed by police in Borough Park in 1999. While police fired at Busch 12 times, Dmitriev, a Ukrainian immigrant, was shot three times in the chest. He is also the second person fatally shot by the police since Sean Bell's death.
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That's actually a hatchet in your picture.
An axe has a full handle. (longer)
Maybe that's what the dude had, but if so, it's not an axe.
Let's see if anyone complains about the hatchet picture being too crass. Let's go you ubersensitive New Yorkers, don't let me down.
I can even go further back in NY history - remember Eleanor Bumpurs? She was a mentally ill woman who threatened cops with a kitchen knife in 1984.
are we going to count how many people the cops kill since they shot sean bell? is this a new baseline i didn't know about?
apartment OF Anatoly
I don't understand why they had to shoot the guy. He was just going to ax his son something.
Dan,
Yep, from now on it's not only gonna be how many people killed since Sean Bell, but also How Many Shots It Took To Kill That Person. So the StatShot for this one is
HMPKSSB: 2
HMSITTKTP: 12