{"id":114501,"date":"2026-01-28T00:21:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T00:21:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/114501\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T00:21:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T00:21:11","slug":"nypd-cop-put-on-modified-duty-for-shooting-raccoon-on-nyc-boardwalk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/114501\/","title":{"rendered":"NYPD Cop Put On Modified Duty For Shooting Raccoon On NYC Boardwalk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>QUEENS, NY \u2014 An NYPD officer has been placed on modified duty after he shot an aggressive raccoon on a Queens boardwalk last week, according to reports. <\/p>\n<p>The incident happened near Beach 121st Street and Ocean Promenade in Belle Harbor on Jan. 22 around 7:45 p.m. <\/p>\n<p>Officers tried to get the animal away from the boardwalk when it suddenly charges towards a group of people in an &#8220;aggressive manner,&#8221; police said.<\/p>\n<p>Bodycam footage obtained by the <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/01\/26\/us-news\/nypd-cop-who-shot-vicious-raccoon-on-nyc-boardwalk-finds-himself-in-hot-water\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New York Post<\/a> and Daily News shows officers walking up to the raccoon as they try to move it away before the incident. <\/p>\n<p>An officer at the scene fired one shot which hit and killed the animal.<\/p>\n<p>The NYPD\u2019s Force Investigation Division is investigating the incident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"QUEENS, NY \u2014 An NYPD officer has been placed on modified duty after he shot an aggressive raccoon&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":114502,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":{"0":"post-114501","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\/114501","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=114501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114501\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}