{"id":188560,"date":"2026-04-07T17:55:35","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T17:55:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/188560\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T17:55:35","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T17:55:35","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-exclusive-video-shows-moment-officer-hit-by-car-in-williamsburg-police-release-images-of-person-wanted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/188560\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | Exclusive video shows moment officer hit by car in Williamsburg; police release images of person wanted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New video is giving a closer look at the moment an officer was hit by a car during a traffic stop in Williamsburg.<\/p>\n<p>\tIt happened Saturday night near Wallabout Street and Broadway.<\/p>\n<p>\tThe video shows officers stepping out of their vehicle after pulling over a white Infiniti. Within seconds, the driver suddenly reverses \u2014 backing into another vehicle and knocking an officer to the ground.<\/p>\n<p>\tThe car then takes off down Wallabout Street.<\/p>\n<p>\tOfficials say the car also hit two police vehicles during the chaos. The vehicle was described as a white Infiniti with Montana plates.<\/p>\n<p>\tThe officer hurt his leg and was taken to the hospital. He has since been released.<\/p>\n<p>\tPolice have also released video of a person they are trying to identify in connection to the incident. That video shows the person walking on a sidewalk, last seen wearing all black.<\/p>\n<p>\tAnyone who recognizes the person is asked to contact Crime Stoppers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New video is giving a closer look at the moment an officer was hit by a car during&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":188561,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":{"0":"post-188560","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"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188560","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=188560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188560\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}