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

Police say that a man suspected of not paying the subway fare did not follow instructions and threatened officers with a knife.

Crowds of protesters mobbed a subway station in Manhattan Wednesday night in response to a police-involved shooting at a Brooklyn subway station on Sunday. Demonstrators jumped the turnstiles at the West 4th Street station and chanted obscenities at responding NYPD officers,

The protest came after prosecutors announced plans to file charges against the man shot by police, who was in stable condition as of Tuesday.

Community leaders in Brooklyn are calling on the NYPD to suspend the officers who shot at a suspect on a subway train Sunday.

Protesters jumped the subway turnstiles in Union Square to bring attention to what they say was a reckless reaction by the NYPD for shooting a man over doing the same thing.

The Brooklyn man who allegedly charged at police officers with a knife on Sunday had already had one interaction with police for reportedly dodging the MTA fare, the NYPD said. NYPD Interim Police Commissioner Thomas G.

The NYPD plans to release body-worn camera footage from Sunday’s chaotic police shooting inside a Brooklyn subway station later this week, in coordination with the district attorney’s office, officials said.

MTA Deputy Chief Jose LaSalle discussed recent protests following the police shooting at a Brooklyn subway station, grid lock around the United Nations, and the newly announced capital plan for infrastructure improvements.