Gunfire has been reported in a Jersey City neighborhood. There is a massive police presence and video shows a line of police officers armed with weapons pointed in several directions walking down the sidewalk.
JERSEY CITY, N.J. — New Jersey’s governor says police officers have been shot in the Jersey City standoff.Sporadic, heavy gunfire rang out Tuesday over the course of at least an hour in a Jersey City neighborhood.SWAT teams and federal agents responded to the scene, and police blocked off the major thoroughfare where the shooting occurred. The area has a Catholic school, some stories, a kosher supermarket and a hair stylist. Phones rang unanswered at several businesses.
Loud volleys of gunfire could be heard at regular intervals but subsided around 2 p.m. in the city, which is just across the Hudson River from Manhattan. Dozens of bystanders pressed against the police barrier to film the action on cellphones, some whooping when gunfire bursts filled the air.
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