NYPD Sgt. in Coma After Savage Off-Duty Beating

An off-duty NYPD sergeant was viciously beaten in a Queens street attack early Sunday while his wife watched helplessly from their car, police and witnesses told the New York Daily News .

The fight outside St. John’s Express restaurant and bar on Liberty Ave. in Ozone Park left Sgt. Mohammed Deen, 40, in a medically induced coma Sunday night, cops said.

A graphic cell phone video appears to show Deen taking a brutal thumping from Hayden Holder, 29, who was charged with felony assault in the 5 a.m. attack.

“That n---- dead,” said the man filming the video, which shows Deen lying unconscious in the street as a man believed to be Holder punches him repeatedly and smacks his head on the pavement.

NYPD Chief of Department Philip Banks III said Deen got into a dispute with Holder outside the restaurant just before the bloody attack.