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An on-duty sergeant found the officer after he exited the car, bleeding from a gunshot wound. The injured officer received aid and was rushed to the hospital where he underwent surgery.
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The percentage out sick Tuesday is double the total from the same day last week.
Read More →Cop-killer Darryl Jeter shot Officer Irma “Fran” Lozada, 25, twice in the head in 1984 after she and her partner chased him for stealing a straphanger’s chain on the L subway line in Brooklyn, the Police Benevolent Association said in a statement.
Read More →In the early morning hours of Oct. 30, Jones walked into the Catskill Police Department headquarters at and sprayed hand sanitizer on his body and head, authorities said previously. An officer then used a taser to subdue him, setting him on fire.
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New York City Mayor-elect Eric Adams has tapped Nassau County Chief of Detectives Keechant Sewell as the next commissioner of the NYPD.
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Officer Alejandra Jacobs, 23, was greeted by a hundred clapping fellow officers — and Mayor-elect Eric Adams — as she was wheeled out of St. Barnabas Hospital shortly before noon, wearing a Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association jacket.
Read More →The eight-year veteran struggled with the suspect and wrestled him to the ground. That officer was shot in the armpit during the struggle.
Read More →“The vest took a lot of it, the shirt and the vest,” he said of his protective police gear amid the brutal assault. “[The knife] hit my skin, too. If the vest didn’t take the impact of [the attack], it could have killed me, Officer Demitrios Raptis said.
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On Sunday, the man reportedly struck Officer Kyo Sun Lee, 30, in the head with a black backpack holding a DVD player, adult videos and a small metal safe, according to a criminal complaint and police sources.
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“If he thinks that they’re going to go back to the old ways of policing, then we are going to take to the streets again. There will be riots, there will be fire and there will be bloodshed because we believe in defending our people,” said Hawk Newsome, co-founder of Black Lives Matter of Greater New York, after a heated meeting with Adams in Brooklyn Borough Hall.
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