video clip<\/a> posted on the department’s YouTube page Friday shows officers confronting Anthony Griffin after he had randomly slashed three people at the 42nd Street-Grand Central subway station, which connects to Grand Central Terminal.<\/p>\nThe uniformed officers, identified in the video as detectives Ryan Giuffre and Anthony Manetta, are seen encountering the 44-year-old as he walks up a stairwell holding a large knife at around 9:40 a.m. on April 11. <\/p>\n
They order Griffin to drop the weapon multiple times, but Giuffre draws his gun as Griffin continues to hold the knife high near his head.<\/p>\n
Griffin then retreats back down the stairs but starts moving toward the officers with the knife still overhead when they start to pursue him.<\/p>\n
\u201cNobody wants to hurt you,\u201d Giuffre says in the video. \u201cWe can talk about it. Get down. Get down. Dude, I\u2019m not going to ask you again. Please. Please. Please. Get down!\u201d<\/p>\n
But Griffin continues shouting and moving erratically toward the officers with the large blade raised up.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t want to be here. Shoot me,\u201d he says at one point. \u201cI am Lucifer,” he says at another. <\/p>\n
Giuffre then fires two shots at Griffin, who immediately drops to the ground. He was taken to the hospital, where he was pronounced dead. <\/p>\n
Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch said at the time of the incident that the officers ordered Griffin to drop the knife at least 20 times but he refused to comply.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur officers were confronted with an armed individual who had already injured multiple people and was continuing to pose a threat,\u201d she said. \u201cThey gave clear commands. They attempted to de-escalate. And when that threat did not stop, they took decisive action to stop it and to protect New Yorkers on one of the busiest train platforms in the city.\u201d <\/p>\n
The three stabbing victims \u2014 an 84 year-old male, 65-year-old male and 70-year-old female \u2014 sustained injuries including \u201csignificant lacerations to the head and face\u201d and a skull fracture, though the wounds were not considered life-threatening, Tisch said. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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