NYPD Officers Kill Mentally Challenged Black Man They Say Aimed a Metal Pipe at Them Like a Gun

New York City police officers in the Crown Heights section of New York’s Brooklyn borough shot and killed a man Wednesday afternoon after mistaking a metal pipe he was wielding for a gun.

NYPD Officers Kill Mentally Challenged Black Man They Say Aimed a Metal Pipe at Them Like a Gun

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