Overview
- The video shows a minutes-long standoff on Jan. 8 with 62-year-old patient Michael Lynch holding a broken porcelain shard as officers issued repeated commands to drop the weapon.
- Officers Jason Liu and Brandon Bradley of the 78th Precinct are identified as firing a total of three rounds after tasers were deployed multiple times without stopping Lynch.
- A recorded 911 call from hospital staff reported a suicidal, armed patient and requested immediate police assistance.
- Police and hospital accounts state Lynch had barricaded himself in an eighth-floor room with an elderly patient and a security guard; the hospital was locked down, and Lynch was treated and pronounced dead there.
- Lynch’s family and their attorney criticized the response as lacking de-escalation, while public records cited in reports note no disciplinary history for the two officers.