A viral photo capturing two NYPD officers running toward danger is now being praised as a powerful example of heroism.<\/p>\n
The image shows NYPD Chief Aaron Edwards rushing toward a suspect during a protest outside Gracie Mansion over the weekend.<\/p>\n
Authorities say the suspect lit a fuse and dropped a smoking canister on the sidewalk as demonstrators and counterdemonstrators gathered near the mayor\u2019s residence.<\/p>\n
Edwards says there was no time to think, only time to act.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou need to go after the bad guy, right? And then you need to get people away from that device,\u201d Edwards said.<\/p>\n
In an instant, Edwards jumped over a metal barrier while Sgt. Luis Navarro<\/p>\n
ran to warn people nearby and help stop the suspect.<\/p>\n
Navarro says everything he learned throughout his career led to that moment.<\/p>\n
\u201cEverything that I\u2019ve learned in my whole career culminated to that one moment,\u201d Navarro said. \u201cI just ran. I knew that I needed to save lives.\u201d<\/p>\n
The NYPD later shared the photo on social media, writing: \u201cSome heroes wear capes. Chief Aaron Edwards wears blue.\u201d The post quickly drew thousands of reactions, with many praising the officers\u2019 courage.<\/p>\n
Investigators say the suspects were inspired by ISIS and targeted protesters gathered outside the mayor\u2019s home.<\/p>\n
The two suspects, 18-year-old Emir Balat and 19-year-old Ibrahim Kayumi, now face federal terrorism charges. If convicted, they could face life in prison.<\/p>\n
Both are expected back in court on April 8.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A viral photo capturing two NYPD officers running toward danger is now being praised as a powerful example…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":161065,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,8409,1445,22925,9,24,63,103,66451,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-161064","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brooklyn","8":"tag-brooklyn","9":"tag-brooklyn-headlines","10":"tag-brooklyn-news","11":"tag-gracie-mansion","12":"tag-mamdani","13":"tag-mayor-zohran-mamdani","14":"tag-new-york","15":"tag-new-york-city","16":"tag-nyc","17":"tag-nypd","18":"tag-nypd-sergeant","19":"tag-zohran-mamdani"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161064","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=161064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161064\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/161065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}