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Police Shoot Man in Midtown, and Tourists Reach for Cameras
The typical afternoon furor in Times Square became something more menacing on Saturday as throngs of police officers drew their weapons and pursued a man with a large knife down Seventh Avenue and then shot him to death.
The scene was chaotic, confusing and almost certainly dangerous. Yet many bystanders stopped to watch, record video and take photos.
Lincoln Rocha, 28, and his wife, Priscilla Rocha, 28, were visiting New York City from Brazil. While walking down Seventh Avenue, they noticed three police officers talking to a man on the sidewalk. The man pulled out a knife, and the officers pulled out their guns.
“And that’s when I started taking photos,” Mr. Rocha said.
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