New York City police say an officer on an anti-looting patrol was ambushed in Brooklyn by a man who walked up behind him and stabbed him in the neck, setting off a struggle in which the assailant was shot and two other officers suffered gunshot injuries.
A New York City police officer stands on a street early Thursday, June 4, 2020, in the Brooklyn borough of New York. The police department says an officer has been shot in Brooklyn. The shooting happened late Wednesday, nearly four hours after an 8 p.m. curfew went into effect intended to quell unrest over the death of George Floyd in Minnesota. Details on the shooting, including the officer's condition, weren’t immediately available.
All three injured officers were expected to recover. The man who attacked them was shot multiple times and was hospitalized in critical condition, said Police Commissioner Dermot Shea.“What we know at this point and time is that it appears to be a completely, cowardly, despicable, unprovoked attack on a defenseless police officer, and thank God we aren’t planning a funeral right now,” Shea said.
There were peaceful marches and protests throughout the day Wednesday, but police moved in to break them up when the curfew took effect. Officers a short distance away heard gunshots, rushed to the scene and saw the man with a gun in his hand, believed to have been taken from one of the officers, Shea said. The responding officers then opened fire.
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