{"id":186068,"date":"2026-04-05T07:46:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T07:46:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/186068\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T07:46:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T07:46:12","slug":"officer-struck-by-driver-who-left-scene-during-stop-in-brooklyn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/186068\/","title":{"rendered":"Officer struck by driver who left scene during stop in Brooklyn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">BROOKLYN &#8211; A police officer was injured after being struck by a vehicle in Brooklyn Saturday night, according to authorities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">What we know<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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 class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The injured officer was taken to a nearby hospital with a leg injury.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">What we don&#8217;t know<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">There were no arrests, and the investigation remains ongoing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Source<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Information from the New York City Police Department\u2019s Deputy Commissioner of Public Information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BROOKLYN &#8211; A police officer was injured after being struck by a vehicle in Brooklyn Saturday night, according&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":186069,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63,74718],"class_list":{"0":"post-186068","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-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-city","13":"tag-nyc","14":"tag-public-information"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186068","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=186068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186068\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}