Global Courant 2023-04-19 14:00:11
A New York Police Department officer on duty was attacked and hit on the head with a bottle in an attack by a random passerby that was caught on video.
First in a video received by New York Postthe female officer was seen standing near 231st Street and Broadway in the Bronx on Monday as officers conducted smoke shop inspections before a man blindsided her and hit her in the back of the head.
The footage shows that the man continues to chase the officer while other officers try to pull him away.
The NYPD confirmed to Fox News Digital that a “female police officer on duty” was hit on the head by a bottle and taken to St. Barnabas Hospital.
MOTHER OF MURDERED VETERAN FAKES DEMOCRATS FOR HELPING BLACK COMMUNITY ‘SELF-DECIMATE’ WITH RISING CRIME
The NYPD says 45-year-old Jose Garcia was arrested for assaulting the officer (New York Post)
Police say the officer is in stable condition and the suspect has been arrested at the scene.
That suspect, according to police, is 45-year-old Jose Garcia who lives in the Bronx.
STEFANIK COMES TO JORDAN FOR HEARING ON THE ‘CRIME CRISIS’ IN NEW YORK CITY
A New York Police Department officer on duty was attacked and hit on the head with a bottle in an attack by a random passerby that was caught on video. (Michael Nagle/Bloomberg via Getty Images/File)
Garcia was charged with assault, obstruction of government administration, resisting arrest, endangerment, criminal possession of weapons and harassment.
The Post reported that Garcia has been arrested 11 times in the past.
The attack comes about a week after Manhattan prosecutor Alvin Bragg called his house the “safest big city in America” after Republicans blamed his progressive policies for contributing to violent crime.
ALVIN BRAGG PROTESTER STARTED FROM HOUSE COURT HEARING: ‘YOU ARE EXTREMELY DISGUSTING’
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg (Alex Kent/AFP via Getty Images/File)
The attack occurred on the same day that the mother of a New York City murder victim yelled down a New York City Democratic lawmaker as she testified in a Republican-led field hearing on Bragg’s policies, warning him not to “trust my intelligence.” to offend”.
“Real people are affected by this. Alvin Bragg dismissed both murder and gang assault charges against two people,” said Madeline Brame, whose son, Army Sgt. Hason Correa, was fatally stabbed in Harlem in 2018.
“There is one of us walking down the street right now. … They brutally ambushed and slaughtered my son nine times, then turned and slaughtered his father 12 times when he tried to help him.”
CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP
Bragg’s office posted on Twitter during the day of the hearing to say that Republicans engaged in a “political stunt” that was “a slap in the face to the dedicated NYPD officers, prosecutors and other officials who work tirelessly every day with facts and data to advance our safe at home.”
Andrew Mark Miller is a writer at Fox News. Find him on Twitter @andymarkmiller and email tips to AndrewMark.Miller@Fox.com.
