NYPD SMASH & GASH
Cop assaulted at rally
An NYPD cop was attacked with a glow-stick-like object — causing a deep cut that required two staples — during a weekend protest that spanned two boroughs, authorities said.
The officer was hurt near the end of a Saturday night demonstration organized by the group Black Kings NYC in which a band of 25 protesters marched from the Barclays Center area in Brooklyn to West 145th Street and Bradhurst Avenue in Manhattan’s Hamilton Heights, police said.
NYPD Deputy Commissioner of Operations Kaz Daughtry on Sunday released a photo of the cop’s bloody head wound, and the weapon used in the assault, which appears to be a glow stick.
“Yesterday evening, the NYPD responded to an unlawful protest,” the NYPD official posted on X. “After giving multiple warnings to demonstrators, our officers moved in to disperse the crowd. At that time, one of our officers was struck in the head with an object, causing a deep cut that required two staples. Thankfully, he will be ok.”
Protest not peaceful
“The NYPD will always support the First Amendment right to peacefully protest, but we will never tolerate unlawful disruptions in our city.”
No one had been arrested by Monday in connection to the attack on the officer, who was at home recovering by the late afternoon, Daughtry said in a subsequent post.
Three people were taken into custody during the protest, which began at around 7:30 p.m. and ended by 9:45 p.m., cops said.
Another officer was hurt during the demonstration, suffering minor injuries, but police provided no further details.
The protest was part of a series of weekly demonstrations against police corruption, and its organizers have pushed for several NYPD chiefs to be removed over misconduct claims, AM New York reported.
Sources within the protest claimed that tensions only flared when cops rushed the group and began to make arrests without provocation, according to the newspaper.
The Post recently revealed that NYPD cops have been getting assaulted by suspects at a recordsetting pace.
A total of 1,286 NYPD officers were injured in altercations with suspects over the last quarter of 2023, bringing the annual tally to a record 5,363 injured cops, department data show. Radical protests, an influx of criminal migrants, bail reform, anti-cop rhetoric and soft-on-crime prosecutors is the brew fueling the disturbing trend, experts told The Post.