$10M to man hit 167 times in MTA horror

AN NYPD officer shot and wounded a bipolar man who cops say lunged at them with a knife on Wednesday, again raising concerns over how police respond to calls involving people with emotional disabilities.

Police said Davonte Pressley, 23, was armed with a kitchen knife when he was shot outside a Brooklyn laundromat. A police source described the clash as a “close quarters” confrontation, saying the cop who fired was about 2 feet away from Pressley when shots rang out.

The wounded man’s mother, Paulette Pressley, 46, said her son was diagnosed with bipolar disorder two years ago, and that he’s on medication.

She said she wasn’t sure if he had taken his meds before the East Flatbush shooting, which occurred a week after an officer shot and killed an elderly Bronx woman who was a diagnosed schizophrenic.

But unlike the circumstances in the shooting of Deborah Danner, 66, the Brooklyn cop did not have a Taser, and his actions have not been called into question by NYPD brass.

“Officers repeatedly ordered the armed male to drop the knife, at which time (he) lunged toward the officers with the knife still in his hand,” said Chief of Patrol Terrance Monahan.

One of the cops opened fire, striking Pressley twice in the shoulder and once in the chest, Monahan said.

Officers responded to a call about a man with a gun and a kitchen knife in front of the Super Clean Laundromat on Ralph Ave. near Remsen Ave. at about 10:50 a.m. Paramedics rushed Pressley to Brookdale University Hospital, where he was listed in critical condition, but expected to survive.

Pressley’s knife was recovered at the scene, Monahan said. Cops released a photo of the knife, which appeared to have specks of blood on it. It was likely his blood from his bullet wounds. No gun was recovered. The 26-year-old officer who fired the shots suffered ringing in the ears and sought treatment at Kings County Hospital, officials said. This was his first shooting in three years on the job, a source said.

“This happened very quickly,” a source said. “The officers pulled up, and the shooting happened immediately thereafter. It was very, very close quarters, within a couple feet. It was very close quarters. He was right up on them.”

Pressley had been arrested more than a dozen times before the shooting, including in 2014 on an assault charge. A MANHATTAN jury awarded $10 million to a man who fell and spent a horrifying 15 minutes trapped between an automated subway platform extender and a train.

Michael Dion was at the Union Square station in 2010 when he got caught between the extender and a 4 train. The extender rammed into him 167 times before an electrician was able to turn it off, said his lawyer Jay Dankner.

Dion, a marketing exec, suffered fractures to both sides of his pelvis, damage to his internal organs and massive internal bleeding.

“He’s still being treated for physical and psychological injuries,” Dankner said.

A city transit rep said it will ask a judge to reduce the verdict because the jury didn’t lay any blame on the then-41-year-old Dion, who acknowledged he’d been drinking. Dankner said the jury found alcohol had nothing to do with his client’s injuries.