{"id":108763,"date":"2026-01-22T17:16:41","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T17:16:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/108763\/"},"modified":"2026-01-22T17:16:41","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T17:16:41","slug":"man-headbutts-spits-on-nypd-officers-at-bronx-subway-stop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/108763\/","title":{"rendered":"Man headbutts, spits on NYPD officers at Bronx subway stop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-uri=\"www.audacy.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmkposnya003b01s7akrn31kl@published\" data-editable=\"text\" class=\"paragraph paragraph--station\">NEW YORK (1010 WINS) &#8212; A man headbutted one NYPD officer and spat on another\u2014and also spat on an MTA worker\u2014as he was kicked off a subway train in the Bronx on Thursday, police said.<\/p>\n<p data-uri=\"www.audacy.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmkpostpu000h3b7v9mwcqbxk@published\" data-editable=\"text\" class=\"paragraph paragraph--station\">The 44-year-old suspect was ejected from a 6 train at the Third Avenue\u2013138th Street station in Mott Haven around 2:15 a.m., police said.<\/p>\n<p data-uri=\"www.audacy.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmkpostqx000i3b7vc98qsmtt@published\" data-editable=\"text\" class=\"paragraph paragraph--station\">As the two officers were escorting him off the train, the man became enranged when his foot became stuck in the space between the train and the platform.<\/p>\n<p data-uri=\"www.audacy.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmkpostsc000j3b7vwt4ultsp@published\" data-editable=\"text\" class=\"paragraph paragraph--station\">He angrily headbutted one officer and spat on the other, police said. An MTA worker came over to help and was also spat on.<\/p>\n<p data-uri=\"www.audacy.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmkpostvn000k3b7vwalq9lgj@published\" data-editable=\"text\" class=\"paragraph paragraph--station\">The suspect was arrested and charged with assaulting a police officer.<\/p>\n<p data-uri=\"www.audacy.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmkpostwv000l3b7vtylcsqar@published\" data-editable=\"text\" class=\"paragraph paragraph--station\">At least one of the injured officers was taken to NYC Health + Hospitals\/Lincoln.<\/p>\n<p>\n          Featured Image Photo Credit: Michael M. Santiago\/Getty Images\n        <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK (1010 WINS) &#8212; A man headbutted one NYPD officer and spat on another\u2014and also spat on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":108764,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":{"0":"post-108763","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-the-bronx","8":"tag-bronx","9":"tag-new-york","10":"tag-new-york-city","11":"tag-nyc","12":"tag-the-bronx","13":"tag-the-bronx-headlines","14":"tag-the-bronx-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108763","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=108763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108763\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}