{"id":107360,"date":"2026-01-21T16:36:30","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T16:36:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/107360\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T16:36:30","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T16:36:30","slug":"nypd-criticizes-brooklyn-hospital-after-cops-who-sought-care-felt-disrespected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/107360\/","title":{"rendered":"NYPD criticizes Brooklyn hospital after cops who sought care felt disrespected"},"content":{"rendered":"

A trio of plainclothes cops who showed up at a Brooklyn hospital<\/a> seeking care felt disrespected by staff there, leading to NYPD leadership registering their unhappiness over how they were treated, the Daily News has learned.<\/p>\n

The narcotics detectives came to NYU Langone Health-Cobble Hill in Brooklyn to be checked out after a suspect they apprehended spat blood on them, police sources said.<\/p>\n

Exactly what transpired between the cops and hospital staff remains unclear.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe members of the NYPD put their lives on the line to protect this city, and the very least they deserve in return is attentive medical care and to be treated with respect,\u201d an NYPD spokesman said.<\/p>\n

NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch \u201cis in direct contact with NYU Langone on this matter,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

NYU Langone put out a statement of its own Wednesday.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo one was denied care,\u201d a spokesperson for NYU Langone Health said. \u201cWe provided care to the injured officer, who was asked to temporarily secure his weapon, as per our policy. The other two officers were allowed to keep their weapons. NYU Langone always values the opportunity to provide care to members of law enforcement.\u201d<\/p>\n

Two of the detectives sought treatment but staffers at the emergency room said hospital policy required them to first get rid of their guns, an NYPD source said.<\/p>\n

As they were being treated, at least one of the detectives overheard a nurse \u201cworry that they might be ICE agents\u201d because they were in plainclothes, one source said.<\/p>\n

A second NYPD source said that the officers were \u201ctreated very poorly and disrespectfully.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"AnAn ICE officer outside an immigration courtroom at the Javits Federal Building. (Barry Williams \/ New York Daily News)<\/p>\n

The suspect the detectives arrested was treated at Brookdale University Hospital, officials said.<\/p>\n

Aggressive crackdowns in New York and other Democratic-led cities by ICE agents, some dressed in plainclothes and masks, have sparked protests nationwide<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In New York, ICE operations have drawn heated protests, including along Canal St. in lower Manhattan in October, when agents, in a surprise raid, swooped in to target illegal street vendors<\/a>.<\/p>\n

A similar operation was planned in late November but protesters learned where the ICE agents were beforehand and blocked the exit to their garage with a human barricade, leading to several arrests.<\/p>\n

Distrust over ICE agents grew earlier this month in the aftermath of Renee Good being sho to death by an ICE agent in Minneapolis<\/a>during a clash over her vehicle partially blocking a roadway.<\/p>\n

Because of New York\u2019s sanctuary city laws, the NYPD is barred from helping the feds with civil immigration enforcement, but cops can be called in if a crime or violation is being committed, such as protesters blocking sidewalks or stopping traffic.<\/p>\n

Mayor Mamdani said Tuesday he supports abolishing\u00a0Immigration and Customs Enforcement<\/a>\u00a0as the agency escalates its immigration crackdowns across the country.<\/p>\n

Mamdani, who\u2019s long been a critic of the agency, told the hosts of ABC\u2019s \u201cThe View\u201d that ICE is \u201cterrorizing people.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m tired of waking up every day and seeing a new image of someone being dragged out of a car, dragged out of their home, dragged out of their life,\u201d the mayor said. \u201cWhat we need to see is humanity, and there is a way to care about immigration in this city and in this country with a sense of humanity.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A trio of plainclothes cops who showed up at a Brooklyn hospital seeking care felt disrespected by staff…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":107361,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[48510,98,100,99,262,263,266,85,267,9,24,264,12,63,261,265],"class_list":["post-107360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-best-reviews","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-city","tag-county","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-latest-headlines","tag-local-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-county","tag-news","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-crime","tag-sub-county-region"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107360\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}