MOTT HAVEN, the Bronx (PIX11) — Doorbell cam video and other evidence shows how police in New York City shot and injured a man who’d called them to report a crime . The man was holding a kitchen knife in his hand when an officer fired on him, according to the NYPD, which is investigating what happened.
Video from a Ring doorbell camera on the front door of a first-floor apartment where the incident happened, at 335 East 148th St. in the Bronx, shows two officers responding to a call at 5:43 p.m. Sunday.
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The officers entered the building and then went up to the second floor, where the 911 call had come from. The man wasn’t home because, according to police, he was in a courtyard on the side of the building. He was there, investigators said, looking for a man he’d called 911 about. The 911 call indicated that someone was trying to steal an air conditioner. The 911 caller was apparently trying to pursue the air conditioner thief with a knife, according to police.
The 911 caller left the side courtyard and entered a first-floor side entrance to his building. That entrance is around a corner from where the two responding cops had just come down from the second floor…