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

The New York City Police Department is responding to shots fired at an L train subway station in Brownsville, Brooklyn.

Two officers pursued a fare evasion suspect, then opened fire as he approached them, police said. The suspect, one officer and two bystanders were shot.

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

New York City police say someone made off with a knife from a crime scene in the chaotic aftermath of a police shooting.

BROOKLYN, New York (WABC) -- Protesters clashed with police Tuesday night in response to this past weekend's police shooting in Brooklyn. Police say they made several arrests, but did not give an exact number. Derell Mickles, the man who was shot by police, remains in critical condition.

A subway fare-beater accused of threatening a pair of NYPD officers with a knife, sparking a showdown that resulted in four being injured by police gunfire at a Brooklyn L station, was indicted Friday for assaulting the officer struck by his partner in the friendly fire shooting.

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,