{"id":114060,"date":"2026-01-27T18:01:27","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T18:01:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/114060\/"},"modified":"2026-01-27T18:01:27","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T18:01:27","slug":"nypd-puts-officer-on-modified-duty-after-raccoon-is-shot-dead-in-queens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/114060\/","title":{"rendered":"NYPD Puts Officer On Modified Duty After Raccoon Is Shot Dead In Queens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>QUEENS, NY \u2014 An NYPD officer has been placed on modified duty after fatally shooting a raccoon on the Rockaway Beach boardwalk, police said.<\/p>\n<p>The shooting happened around 7:45 a.m. Thursday at Rockaway Beach, shortly after a 911 caller reported a vicious animal, police said. <\/p>\n<p>Body-worn camera footage released by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/2026\/01\/26\/nypd-sergeant-placed-on-modified-duty-for-shooting-raccoon-on-rockaway-beach-boardwalk-sources\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Daily News<\/a> shows three officers approaching the raccoon as it moved from the beach toward the boardwalk near Beach 121st Street.<\/p>\n<p>Officials said officers were attempting to guide the raccoon away from the boardwalk to a safe area when it suddenly charged, prompting one officer to fire his weapon. <\/p>\n<p>No people were injured in the shooting, police added. <\/p>\n<p>Police said Tuesday morning that the encounter is still under investigation and the officer has been placed on modified duty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"QUEENS, NY \u2014 An NYPD officer has been placed on modified duty after fatally shooting a raccoon on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":114061,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":{"0":"post-114060","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-queens","8":"tag-new-york","9":"tag-new-york-city","10":"tag-nyc","11":"tag-queens","12":"tag-queens-headlines","13":"tag-queens-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114060","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=114060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114060\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}