NYPD brass is doubling-down on a controversial police friendly fire shooting that left a cop and two bystanders injured — calling the mishap “tragic” but defending the officers who opened fire. Police said cops warned the deranged fare beater who sparked the encounter to drop his knife 38 times and tried to Tase him twice before firing off nine rounds at a Brooklyn subway station Sunday.

The New York Police Department says it will release body camera footage of its officers firing on a knife-wielding suspect in a New York subway car.

Protesters jumped the subway turnstiles in Union Square to bring attention to what they say was a reckless reaction by the NYPD for shooting a man over doing the same thing.