A man is lucky be alive after being shot in the face on Saturday afternoon in Clinton Hill.

New York police have defended their actions after a bystander was shot in the head as two officers tackled a fare-evader armed with a knife in a busy subway station. The man was in critical condition after the shooting at Sutter Avenue L station in Brooklyn on Sunday afternoon.

Nearly 20 people were arrested in a protest that spawned at a Brooklyn subway station where four people were shot, including two bystanders, when NYPD officers opened fire during a confrontation with an alleged fare-beater over the weekend,

Protesters demanded transparency and accountability from the NYPD after a police-involved shooting in Brooklyn on Sunday that saw a fare evasion suspect, a officer and two innocent bystanders all struck by police gunfire.