The Gothamist has an article and while its well written and the situation seems quite serious they seem to fail to call this what it was...

A mass shooting attack on civilians carried out by the NYPD.

How does it make sense to escalate a fucking subway fare into a mass fucking shooting?

https://gothamist.com/news/at-least-1-nypd-officer-shot-near-brooklyn-l-train-police-say