I was walking through Times Square once when this kid came flying past me and I heard all this shouting. I turned around and two cops on foot came running up the sidewalk and people were pointing this way and that and yelling. "There he goes! He went that way!" Then a cop on a horse came through the crowd. It was crazy and you could tell that the cops didn't trust anything people were shouting. Scary part was, you didn't know where to go to get out of the way. Fortunately no one was shooting in that situation.
Exactly, nowhere to go. That one cop in the video, took up a whole 90 degrees of sidewalk, gun blazing. The people in the line of fire had no chance.