Dramatic police body camera footage shows cops repeatedly warning a deranged suspect to drop his knife — then firing a taser to subdue him — before a “friendly fire” shooting left a cop and two bystanders injured at a Brooklyn subway station.
In the stunning footage, cops are shown trailing Derrell Mickles, 37, then shouting “Drop the knife!” and “Put the knife down!” after he allegedly hopped a turnstile at the L line station on Sutter Avenue Sunday.
When the knife-wielding suspect repeatedly refuses, the officers are shown first tasering him then hitting him with a bullet.
Mickles falls to the floor of the train, but appears to barely react to being shot.
Before the gunfire breaks out, Mickles can be heard shouting “Leave me alone!” as one police officer demands,“Show us your hands!”
Mickles ignores the officers and boards the train — then tries to flee moments later, prompting cops to fire the taser, the footage shows.
The defiant suspect also allegedly told cops, “You’re going to make me kill you,” prosecutors revealed in court Friday.
At Mickles’ arraignment, Assistant District Attorney Steven Bravo said the suspect held a knife as two cops trailed him after seeing him jump a turnstile for the second time within nine minutes.
“You’re going to make me kill you, if you don’t f—ing leave me the f— alone,” Mickles told cops, according to Bravo.
“The defendant says, in some substance, ‘I’m not dropping the knife. Shoot me,’” Bravo said at the hearing, where Mickles appeared by video from a hospital bed.
In total, the police officers told Mickels to drop the knife at least 38 times before both officers opened fire, according to cops
During the chase, Mickels charged one of the officers, who fired a total of nine rounds.
Police Benevolent Association President Patrick Hendry argued the body camera footage showed Mickles was “solely responsible for all the harm caused in this incident.”
“The video clearly shows that this individual repeatedly brandished a deadly knife on the subway, threatened to kill our police officers and then lunged at them with that knife,” Hendry said in a statement. “His actions put our police officers and everyone in that subway station in a horrible, dangerous situation.”
Mickle’s defense attorney Jonathan Fink said his client had a “pretty minimal” criminal history, which includes drug and assault convictions.
“I haven’t seen the video, it seems like there might be a strong argument that there was disproportionate force used by the police in this case, the fact of the matter is my client is sitting in a hospital bed, seriously injured,” Fink said.
Mickles pleaded not guilty and was ordered held on a $200,000 fully secured bond, or a $1.5 million partially secured bond.
He faces charges including aggravated assault on a police officer with a deadly weapon, assault with intent causing serious injury with a knife and menacing a police officer with a knife.
The family of Gregory Delpeche, a bystander who was shot in the head in the friendly fire blunder, denounced the cops for unloading their guns on the subway.
“It was reckless by the police,” Delpeche’s cousin, Greg Nougues, told The Post earlier this week.
“It’s not fine for them to shoot like that into a train,” Nougues fumed. “They shouldn’t be firing while civilians are present. For $2 and 90 cents?”
On Wednesday, Delpeche’s lawyers revealed they were considering suing the city.
“We’re investigating a potential for a lawsuit,” attorney Nicholas Liakas had said. “It seems that the conduct certainly has risen to that level where accountability needs to be met here, and it may result in that at this point.”
NYPD brass have called the incident “tragic” but defended the officers who opened fire, asserting that a knife was removed from the scene but later recovered.
The body camera footage was released Friday by the NYPD’s 73rd Precinct.
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