{"id":328306,"date":"2026-05-03T04:49:30","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T23:19:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/?p=328306"},"modified":"2026-05-03T04:49:30","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T23:19:30","slug":"video-of-nyc-police-killing-machete-wielding-man-at-grand-central-station-released-national","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/2026\/05\/03\/video-of-nyc-police-killing-machete-wielding-man-at-grand-central-station-released-national\/","title":{"rendered":"Video of NYC police killing machete-wielding man at Grand Central station released &#8211; National"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>Recent York City police have released body-worn camera footage of officers shooting and killing a machete-wielding man who\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/new-york-subway-station-injuries-hospital-1cd670e7b0a302e2d51f851a74247bfd\">stabbed three people<\/a>\u00a0at a Grand Central subway stop last month.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=RRmeHQZ6AhY&#038;rco=1\">video clip<\/a>\u00a0posted on the department\u2019s YouTube page Friday shows officers confronting Anthony Griffin after he had randomly slashed three people on the forty second Street-Grand Central subway station, which connects to Grand Central Terminal.<\/p>\n<p>The uniformed officers, identified within the video as detectives Ryan Giuffre and Anthony Manetta, are seen encountering the 44-year-old as he walks up a stairwell holding a big knife at around 9:40 a.m. on April 11.<\/p>\n<p>They order Griffin to drop the weapon multiple times, but Giuffre draws his gun as Griffin continues to carry the knife high near his head.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-inlineSignup\" data-newsletter-inline=\"\">\n<div class=\"c-inlineSignup__image\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"170\" height=\"225\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/wp-content\/themes\/shaw-globalnews\/images\/skyline\/national.jpg\" alt=\"Get breaking Canada news delivered to your inbox as it happens so you won't miss a trending story.\">\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"c-inlineSignup__content\">\n<h2 class=\"c-inlineSignup__title\">Get breaking National news<\/h2>\n<p>Get breaking Canada news delivered to your inbox because it happens so you will not miss a trending story.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Griffin then retreats back down the steps but starts moving toward the officers with the knife still overhead after they begin to pursue him.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-ad c-ad--bigbox l-article__ad\">\n<p>Story continues below commercial<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u201cNo person desires to hurt you,\u201d Giuffre says within the video. \u201cWe are able to speak about it. Get down. Get down. Dude, I\u2019m not going to ask you again. Please. Please. Please. Get down!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But Griffin continues shouting and moving erratically toward the officers with the massive blade raised up.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t need to be here. Shoot me,\u201d he says at one point. \u201cI&#8217;m Lucifer,\u201d he says at one other.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-tabs\">\n<p>\n\t\t\t<button role=\"tab\" class=\"c-tabs__tab c-tabs__tab--active\" type=\"button\">More on U.S. News<\/button><br \/>\n\t\t\t<button role=\"tab\" class=\"c-tabs__tab\" type=\"button\">More videos<\/button>\n\t\t<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Giuffre then fires two shots at Griffin, who immediately drops to the bottom. He was taken to the hospital, where he was pronounced dead.<\/p>\n<p>Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch said on the time of the incident that the officers ordered Griffin to drop the knife a minimum of 20 times but he refused to comply.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur officers were confronted with an armed individual who had already injured multiple people and was continuing to pose a threat,\u201d she said. \u201cThey gave clear commands. They attempted to de-escalate. And when that threat didn&#8217;t stop, they took decisive motion to stop it and to guard Recent Yorkers on considered one of the busiest train platforms in the town.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The three stabbing victims \u2014 an 84 year-old male, 65-year-old male and 70-year-old female \u2014 sustained injuries including \u201csignificant lacerations to the pinnacle and face\u201d and a skull fracture, though the injuries weren&#8217;t considered life-threatening, Tisch said.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\n\t\t&#038;copy 2026 The Canadian Press\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recent York City police have released body-worn camera footage of officers shooting and killing a machete-wielding man who\u00a0stabbed three people\u00a0at a Grand Central subway stop last month. The\u00a0video clip\u00a0posted on the department\u2019s YouTube page Friday shows officers confronting Anthony Griffin after he had randomly slashed three people on the forty second Street-Grand Central subway station, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":328307,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20691],"tags":[5226,2214,4944,27299,1054,1903,3897,9116,2344,6459,600],"class_list":["post-328306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-central","tag-grand","tag-killing","tag-machetewielding","tag-man","tag-national","tag-nyc","tag-police","tag-released","tag-station","tag-video"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=328306"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":328309,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328306\/revisions\/328309"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/328307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}