New York police have released body-worn camera footage of officers shooting and killing a machete-wielding man who stabbed three people at a Grand Central subway station last month.
of clip posted on the department’s YouTube page Friday shows officers confronting Anthony Griffin after he accidentally hit three people at the 42nd Street-Grand Central subway station, which connects to Grand Central Terminal.
The uniformed officers, identified in the video as detectives Ryan Giuffre and Anthony Manetta, are seen grappling with the 44-year-old man as he walks up a staircase holding a large knife around 9:40 a.m. on April 11.
They order Griffin to drop the gun several times, but Giuffre pulls his gun as Griffin continues to hold the knife up next to his head.
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Griffin then retreats back down the stairs, but begins to move toward the officers with the knife still held high as they begin to follow.
“Nobody wants to hurt you,” Giuffre says in the video. “We can talk about this. Get off. Get off. Room, I won’t ask you again. Please. Please. Please. Get off!”
But Griffin continues to yell and move erratically toward the officers with the large blade raised.
“I don’t want to be here. Shoot me,” he says at one point. “I am Lucifer,” he says in another.
Giuffre then fires two shots at Griffin, who immediately falls to the ground. He was taken to the hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch said at the time of the incident that officers ordered Griffin to drop the knife at least 20 times, but he refused to comply.
“Our officers were confronted by an armed individual who had already injured multiple people and was continuing to pose a threat,” she said. “They gave clear commands. They tried to de-escalate. And when that threat didn’t stop, they took decisive action to stop it and protect New Yorkers on one of the busiest train platforms in the city.”
The three stabbing victims — an 84-year-old man, a 65-year-old man and a 70-year-old woman — suffered injuries including “significant lacerations to the head and face” and a fractured skull, although the injuries were not considered life-threatening, Tisch said.
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