The NYPD will be placing more officers and increasing security at movie theaters citywide after an incident involving a gunman at a movie theater in Germany earlier on Thursday.
NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton announced the increased police presence during an unrelated news conference, NBC4 reported. RELATED: NYC to see increased security in response to Brussels attacks “In response to a terrorism incident anywhere in the world, we will immediately err on the side of caution by ramping up our police presence at similar locations,” Bratton was quoted by ABC7. “So at this moment we are in fact doing that around the city at major movie locations.”
“Many Critical Response Command units deployed to theaters today in response to incident in Germany,” @CommissBratton. No Known NYC Threat
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German Interior Minister Hesse Peter Beuth confirmed that a suspect had been killed at a movie complex approximately 40 miles south of Frankfurt after a masked man with a weapon allegedly took hostages before being confronted by authorities, according to NBC4.
