Police say a Brooklyn man has been arrested for spitting at an MTA employee and injuring two police officers who were attempting to detain him aboard a 6 train in Mott Haven.<\/p>\n
Julian Cambell, 44, is accused of carrying out the attack just after 2 a.m. Thursday as the train arrived at the 3rd Avenue and East 138th St station.<\/p>\n
Authorities say Cambell was acting in a disorderly manner and spat at the 53-year-old employee who ordered him to exit the train. Two officers responded and attempted to arrest Cambell, who resisted, injuring the officers.<\/p>\n
EMS took the two officers to NYC Health + Hospitals\/Lincoln, where they received treatment for minor injuries.<\/p>\n
The MTA employee was not injured, according to police.<\/p>\n
Cambell is charged with assault, resisting arrest, obstructing governmental administration, disorderly conduct and harassment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police say a Brooklyn man has been arrested for spitting at an MTA employee and injuring two police…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":109126,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[211,98,100,99,3796,141,49071,9,24,63,4733],"class_list":["post-109135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-assault","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-mott-haven","tag-mta","tag-mta-employee","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-officer-assault"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109135","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=109135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109135\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}