Drop the gun. Get down, buddy. We want to help you! officers tell Bennett that a less-lethal weapon was fired at him. “We don’t want to kill you man, please drop the gun!”

A minute later, Bennett appears to point the gun at the officers. More than a dozen gunshots are heard.

“You didn’t have to do this!” As Bennett lies on the ground near the subway tracks, a bystander shouts that about a dozen officers had approached Bennett earlier.

Police Chief Axel Henry said in a statement after the attack: “There was another incident of gun violence in our city last week.” “Our police teams intervened in a person who fired a gun at one of the busiest intersections of our state.

“Given the location, time of day, and the number of motorists, light rail users, and people on foot and bicycles in the area, I am thankful that more people were not injured.”