Times Square Police Shooting Was Justified but Put Others at Risk, Experts Say

Officers who stood around a woman wielding two kitchen knives, and then opened fire without clearing the area, risked harming themselves or passers-by, the experts said. It happened again on Monday afternoon in New York City: An armed person who appeared to be in the throes of a psychiatric crisis committed a violent act and moved toward the police, who then opened fire. In this case, it was a 49-year-old woman with two kitchen knives who attacked two people, one fatally , before the police shot and killed her in Times Square in Manhattan. Often, such incidents lead to intense scrutiny of the police response and a debate over whether the deadly confrontation could have been avoided. In interviews on Tuesday, several law enforcement experts said that the shooting was justified.

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