Video shows cops repeatedly warning suspect to ‘drop the knife’ before Brooklyn subway shooting

WARNING: DISTRESSING CONTENT. 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.

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