{"id":205141,"date":"2026-04-21T20:15:36","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T20:15:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/205141\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T20:15:36","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T20:15:36","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-driver-arrested-for-striking-officer-with-car-in-williamsburg-during-traffic-stop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/205141\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | Driver Arrested For Striking Officer With Car In Williamsburg During Traffic Stop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Police say a man was arrested for striking an officer with his <a data-rich-text-hyperlink=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/brooklyn.news12.com\/police-release-image-of-person-wanted-after-officer-hit-by-car-in-williamsburg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">car during a traffic stop in Williamsburg.<\/a><\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">They say 20-year-old Allen Garcia is facing multiple charges, including reckless endangerment and three counts of assault.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">It happened on April 4 near Wallabout Street and Broadway.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">They say Garcia backed into a vehicle and knocked an officer to the ground while fleeing the scene. The officer sustained minor injuries and was brough to a hospital in stable condition.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Officials say the car also hit two police vehicles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police say a man was arrested for striking an officer with his car during a traffic stop in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":205142,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":{"0":"post-205141","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\/205141","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=205141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205141\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}