{"id":196220,"date":"2026-04-14T00:33:38","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T00:33:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/196220\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T00:33:38","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T00:33:38","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-car-rams-police-cruiser-races-away-during-gravesend-traffic-stop-gone-awry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/196220\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | Car Rams Police Cruiser Races Away During Gravesend Traffic Stop Gone Awry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">A car rammed a police cruiser multiple times before racing away during a traffic stop gone awry in Gravesend, authorities say.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Officers attempted to stop the red Kia with New Jersey license plates near 52 Avenue V just after 2 p.m. Monday. Police sources tell News 12 the officers identified the driver in connection with another incident.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The NYPD was able to track the car down approximately two miles away, near Homecrest Avenue and Williams Court, where Citizen app footage shows the Kia crashed onto the sidewalk.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Authorities say officers took the driver and the passenger, both men, into custody. One of these officers suffered minor injuries while detaining the driver.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The officer was treated at the 60th precinct and is expected to be OK.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Official charges have not been filed as of Monday evening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A car rammed a police cruiser multiple times before racing away during a traffic stop gone awry in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":196221,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":{"0":"post-196220","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\/196220","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=196220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196220\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}