According to a report from The New York Post, a woman waving a gun around at an intersection on Long Island was taken out by a police cruiser before she could do any damage.
From The New York Post:
Police responded to a report of a woman firing a gun into the air at the intersection of Bellmore and Jerusalem avenues in North Bellmore around 2:20 p.m. on Tuesday afternoon.
Footage of the incident, posted on Reddit, shows the woman holding the handgun and threateningly pointing it at other cars as she walks across the road.
At one point she even holds the gun to her own head, the video shows.
Suddenly, tires can be heard screeching and a Nassau Police cruiser flies into the frame.
The woman tries to get out of the way, but the officer clips her, knocking her to the ground.
“Drop the gun!” one officer screams as he sprints toward the woman.
“Protocol on the police department is that deadly physical force spurs deadly physical force,” Nassau Police Commissioner Patrick Ryder told reporters at a press conference.
“If somebody has threatened deadly physical force against you or another, you have the right to use deadly physical force, and they chose it through their vehicle and they stopped the individual.”
Watch the exchange above.
Long Island cop drives cruiser into woman waving gun in the street, wild video shows https://t.co/lfnuR2aqRi pic.twitter.com/6Elkv3zdV3
— New York Post (@nypost) August 16, 2023
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