Police video shows man who walked into NYPD station with knife and 'asked to be shot'

The New York City Police Department is investigating a man who walked into a precinct with a knife and, according to Chief Terence Monahan, asked to be shot.

Monahan released a video of the man getting hit by a stun gun after being confronted by police inside the precinct. The video shows the man, who police told USA TODAY is 26 years old, walking into the precinct Sunday morning with something in his left hand.

"The male was ordered to drop the knife, but he refused," NYPD Detective Martin Brown Lee told USA TODAY. "Officers isolated the man within the lobby and deployed their conducted energy devices, striking the individual, and took him into custody."

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According to the National Institute of Justice, conducted energy devices, like Tasers, "induce involuntary muscle contractions, causing the suspect to be temporarily incapacitated."

Brown Lee said the man was taken to Brookdale Hospital in Brooklyn in stable condition. The investigation is ongoing, he said.

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The video shows an officer circling the man before hitting him with the stun gun. Officers converge on the man after he falls to the ground.

"Cops face split second, life & death decisions every day," Monahan tweeted Sunday.

"When an emotionally disturbed man holding a long knife walked into the (75th precinct) — and asked to be shot — these cops reacted quickly. Though prepared for the worst, they delivered a safe outcome for everyone. Well done!"

This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: NYPD: Man with knife 'asked to be shot' after walking into precinct