{"id":185863,"date":"2026-04-05T02:00:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T02:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/185863\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T02:00:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T02:00:08","slug":"officer-struck-by-driver-who-fled-during-brooklyn-stop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/185863\/","title":{"rendered":"Officer struck by driver who fled during Brooklyn stop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/40768938-police-line-crime-tape_1462025332279_1248657_ver1.0.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-v-7d0efd03=\"\"\/> article    <\/p>\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\">BROOKLYN &#8211; A police officer was injured after being struck by a vehicle in Brooklyn Saturday night, according to authorities.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WNYW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-f1afc186=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\">The New York City Police Department\u2019s Deputy Commissioner of Public Information (DCPI) said the incident happened at approximately 8 p.m. near Broadway and Wallabout Street.<\/p>\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\">DCPI added that the officer had stopped a vehicle when the driver suddenly reversed, striking the officer. The driver then fled the scene.<\/p>\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\">The injured officer was taken to a nearby hospital with a leg injury.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WNYW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-f1afc186=\"\">What we don&#8217;t know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\">There were no arrests, and the investigation remains ongoing.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Information from the New York City Police Department\u2019s Deputy Commissioner of Public Information.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox5ny.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-f1afc186=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime and Public Safety<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox5ny.com\/tag\/news\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-f1afc186=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox5ny.com\/tag\/us\/ny\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-f1afc186=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New York<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox5ny.com\/tag\/us\/ny\/nyc\/brooklyn\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-f1afc186=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brooklyn<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article BROOKLYN &#8211; A police officer was injured after being struck by a vehicle in Brooklyn Saturday night,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":185864,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,850,9,24,12,56,63,618],"class_list":{"0":"post-185863","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-crime-publicsafety","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-city","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-ny","16":"tag-nyc","17":"tag-us"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185863","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=185863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185863\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/185864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}