{"id":299478,"date":"2026-07-18T15:14:44","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T15:14:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/299478\/"},"modified":"2026-07-18T15:14:44","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T15:14:44","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-nypd-officer-hospitalized-after-gerritsen-beach-drag-racing-chaos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/299478\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | Nypd Officer Hospitalized After Gerritsen Beach Drag Racing Chaos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">An NYPD officer is in the hospital after drag racing chaos unfolded in Borough Park Saturday morning, according to NYPD.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Police say they received multiple 911 calls for drag racing and reckless driving around 3 a.m. near Knapp Street and Avenue W.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">When officers arrived, one vehicle rear-ended a marked NYPD patrol car.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">An unidentified person then slashed the police vehicle&#8217;s tires with a sharp object, jumped onto the hood and smashed the passenger-side window with an unknown object.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">One officer was transported to a local hospital in stable condition.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">No arrests have been made, and the investigation remains ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An NYPD officer is in the hospital after drag racing chaos unfolded in Borough Park Saturday morning, according&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":217350,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-299478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299478","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=299478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299478\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}