🚨 “WHY DIDN’T THEY JUST GRAB HER?” — A MOTHER’S QUESTION IS NOW AT THE CENTER OF THE TIMES SQUARE SHOOTING

She was her daughter.

And now, she is gone.

After 49-year-old Pamela Cisneros was fatally shot by NYPD officers following a deadly stabbing in Times Square, her mother was left with one heartbreaking question:

“There were so many police… why didn’t they grab her by the arm?”

Police say Cisneros had two knives and refused repeated commands to drop them. Three officers used Tasers, but they appeared to have no effect. Authorities say she then moved toward officers with the knives, prompting two officers to fire.

But for her mother, the question is painfully different:

Was there another way?

Could she have been restrained?

Could the confrontation have ended without gunfire?

Or were those final seconds simply too dangerous for officers to risk getting closer?

Those questions cannot be answered by emotion alone.

New York’s Attorney General’s Office has opened an investigation into the shooting, and officials say the facts released so far are preliminary and subject to change.

On one side is a grieving mother who will forever wonder whether her daughter could have come home.

On the other are officers who faced a person authorities say was armed with two knives after two people had already been stabbed.

Somewhere in those final seconds lies the answer.

And until investigators reconstruct exactly what happened, one question will continue to haunt this case:

Could Pamela Cisneros have been taken alive?