A Los Angeles Police Department officer was injured after being struck by a vehicle in Sylmar late Friday evening, officials said.<\/p>\n
The Los Angeles Fire Department responded to the 13500 block of Foothill Boulevard near Hubbard Street around 7:50 p.m.<\/p>\n
Authorities say the police officer was at an incident in the area when he was hit by a car. More details about his injuries or his condition are unknown.<\/p>\n
Aerial footage from NewsChopper4 showed a large LAPD and Los Angeles Fire Department response near the scene.<\/p>\n
It’s unclear if anyone else was hurt.<\/p>\n
A witness told NBC Los Angeles that the driver who struck the officer first swerved to avoid hitting another car that was slowing down due to traffic in the area.<\/p>\n
“When he swerved to the left, unfortunately, the cop was there,” Brenda Miranda said.<\/p>\n
She said the driver didn’t stop after hitting the officer.<\/p>\n
“He was lying on the ground,” Miranda said about the officer. “I mean, his partners came to him. It was not easy to see.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Los Angeles Police Department officer was injured after being struck by a vehicle in Sylmar late Friday…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":446882,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[48,52,51,47,50,49,32893],"class_list":["post-446881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-sylmar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=446881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446881\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/446882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=446881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=446881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=446881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}