New York Post<\/a> reported that the dispute involved two women who were staying at the hotel and knew each other. <\/p>\n\tArticle continues below the player<\/p>\n
Law enforcement sources told the newspaper that the women had gone to a Pride Week event together the night before and were arguing over luggage when one of them discharged the spray.<\/p>\n
The 28-year-old woman who was apparently targeted was evaluated by emergency medical workers at the scene, along with several other people who were exposed to the spray, according to the report.<\/p>\n
Officials said eight people in total needed medical treatment. Details about their conditions were not immediately released, but no serious injuries were reported.<\/p>\n
The woman accused of releasing the spray fled the hotel and had not been arrested hours later, the New York Post reported. Police have not released her identity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Eight people were treated after bear spray was released inside a Lower Manhattan hotel during a dispute between…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":281715,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,8392,84,83,9,24,18643,63,901],"class_list":["post-281714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-new-york","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-new-york","tag-nyc","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281714","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=281714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281714\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/281715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}