{"id":1043177,"date":"2026-09-04T16:12:25","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T16:12:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1043177\/"},"modified":"2026-09-04T16:12:25","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T16:12:25","slug":"new-york-city-police-fatally-shoot-man-who-climbed-up-brooklyn-bridge-cables-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1043177\/","title":{"rendered":"New York City police fatally shoot man who climbed up Brooklyn Bridge cables | New York"},"content":{"rendered":"

New York City police shot and killed a man on Friday morning after he climbed on to the cables of the Brooklyn Bridge and approached officers with a knife extended, New York<\/a> police department officials said.<\/p>\n

At a news conference<\/a> on Friday, NYPD officials said that a 911 call came in at around 3.28am on Friday morning, reporting that a man was walking on the beams of the Brooklyn Bridge.<\/p>\n

Officers with the NYPD\u2019s emergency service unit (ESU) responded to the scene, and saw a man \u201cwalking on the bridge cables\u201d, Gerald Dowling, the commanding officer of ESU, told reporters.<\/p>\n

\u201cMembers of ESU climbed on to those cables and attempted to establish a verbal dialogue with the male and safely remove him from the bridge,\u201d Dowling said.<\/p>\n

Dowling noted that the officers spent almost an hour speaking with the man, explaining that they were there to help, and tried to convince him to get down from the bridge safely. During the interaction, the officers observed that the man was holding a knife, he said.<\/p>\n

The man told the officers: \u201cI want to die, I want you to kill me. I have a bomb. You are not going to make me do something bad to the cops.\u201d<\/p>\n

Throughout the interaction, Dowling said, the officers continued trying to convince him to get down safely, while also issuing \u201cmultiple verbal commands for him to drop the knife\u201d.<\/p>\n

After about an hour, hundreds of feet above the East River, the man \u201cbegan to quickly descend the cable of the bridge towards the officers\u201d, Dowling said, adding that at the time, the officers were still clipped to the bridge and positioned below the man on the same cable.<\/p>\n

Dowling said that when ESU officers are \u201cconducting high-angle rescue\u201d, they wear safety gear, including a harness, which is \u201cphysically clipped into the bridge\u201d for their safety and noted that \u201cbeing secured to the bridge drastically impacts the speed of their movement\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe officers began to move backwards away from the male, but they were not able to move as quickly as the subject who was approaching them,\u201d Dowling said. \u201cWhen the male got within approximately 3ft from the closest member of ESU, he raised his arm with the knife extended outward towards the officer.\u201d<\/p>\n

At that point, Dowling said, an ESU officer \u201cwho was on the roadbed of the bridge discharged his weapon one time, striking the male\u201d.<\/p>\n

Dowling said that the officers <\/strong>then brought the male down from the cable and began rendering aid. The man was transported to a local hospital where he was pronounced deceased.<\/p>\n

A knife and a flashlight were recovered from the scene. Officials said that the entire incident was captured on police-worn body cameras. On social media, the police shared a photo<\/a> of what they said was the knife recovered from the scene.<\/p>\n

The police have not yet released details regarding the identity of the man.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis incident is being investigated by the force investigation division,\u201d Dowling said. \u201cMembers of ESU are specially trained for these types of high-risk and incredibly dangerous situations. They receive extensive instruction on de-escalation and how to engage with individuals compassionately.\u201d<\/p>\n

The shooting came several days after police shot and killed a woman<\/a> in Times Square after she attacked two people with knives, killing a 32-year-old woman<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New York City police shot and killed a man on Friday morning after he climbed on to the…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1043178,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":["post-1043177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-america","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkcity","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/117213655333907965","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1043177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043177\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1043178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1043177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1043177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1043177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}