Footage of two New York City police officers opening fire at a subway station as they confronted a man holding a knife shows they fired at him as he was standing still, his arms by his side and his ba

We are not perfect,” said John Chell, the Police Department’s chief of patrol, as protesters gathered in Union Square.

The knife-wielding suspect wounded by police in the contentious “friendly fire” NYPD subway shooting told cops, “You’re going to make me kill you,” prosecutors revealed in court Friday. An arraignment for Derrell Mickles,

The 37-year-old man shot by police inside a Brooklyn subway station after allegedly wielding a knife pleaded not guilty to a litany of charges, including criminal assault, possession of a weapon and menacing.

NYPD brass is doubling-down on a controversial police friendly fire shooting that left a cop and two bystanders injured — calling the mishap “tragic” but defending the officers who opened fire. Police said cops warned the deranged fare beater who sparked the encounter to drop his knife 38 times and tried to Tase him twice before firing off nine rounds at a Brooklyn subway station Sunday.

A man who police shot on a crowded Brooklyn subway platform Sunday — after, the NYPD says, he skipped a fare and threatened officers with a knife — remains in a hospital bed and unable to walk, his attorney said Friday.