[Popman]

I watched the shooting video several times and wonder how so many people got injured when the police were shooting basically toward the street or down street at an angle...

I think the cops were simply shooting at him without aiming...the one cop on the left side nearest to the sidewalk seemed to be shooting at a very weird angle and was just spraying bullets...

I'm not necessarily blaming the cops as this scenario is a one in life time event... NYPD probably need to step up their training programs to include these situations...

[HiTech RedNeck]

Wonder if the officers’ guns had laser dot range finders. This is one situation where that most definitely would have helped (even if nobody was directly beyond the target, bullets that have passed through the target are less likely to ricochet far than bullets that have utterly missed).

[Jim Noble]

NYPD probably need to step up their training programs to include these situations...

Live shooter @ 34th and 5th is a nightmare tactical scenario for the defender(s), not sure how to run the scenario with a good outcome.

[Iscool]

I watched the shooting video several times and wonder how so many people got injured when the police were shooting basically toward the street or down street at an angle...

I watched the video as well...One cop was firing at the flower pots and oncoming vehicles in the street...

The other was shooting down the sidewalk towards the people running away and undoubtedly the ones coming toward him who were out of the range of the video...