I don’t think the cops were really prepared to face this situation. Two or Three bystanders but Nine is a disaster. Bloomberg has not been helping anything with his crazy statements of late. Most if this backlash is not against the NYPD but Bloomberg.
Nine? NINE?
Within the lethal range of a 9mm pistol (which I think is the NYPD duty weapon), at that hour, at that location, there were probably between 2500 and 25 000 "bystanders".
Like I said, tactically, a nightmare.