{"id":375284,"date":"2026-10-16T23:58:57","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T23:58:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/375284\/"},"modified":"2026-10-16T23:58:57","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T23:58:57","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-ag-investigates-death-at-brooklyn-mens-shelter-following-encounter-with-nypd-homeless-services-officers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/375284\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | Ag Investigates Death At Brooklyn Mens Shelter Following Encounter With Nypd Homeless Services Officers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">New York Attorney General Letitia James&#8217; Office of Special Investigation (OSI) says it launched an investigation into the death of a man who passed away last year after an encounter with the NYPD and Department of Homeless Services (DHS) officers.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The incident unfolded on Dec. 21, 2025, at a shelter on Clarkson Avenue.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">According to James, the man allegedly pushed a DHS peace officer.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Investigators say DHS officers attempted to handcuff the man when a struggle ensued.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">NYPD officers then responded to the location and tried to help restrain the man, who then lost consciousness.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The man was rushed to a nearby hospital, where he was pronounced dead.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">According to the AG&#8217;s OSI, it had previously conducted a preliminary assessment of the incident.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">New information about the man\u2019s death prompted the OSI to launch a full investigation.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The man&#8217;s identity and his cause of death were not immediately known.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New York Attorney General Letitia James&#8217; Office of Special Investigation (OSI) says it launched an investigation into the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":364355,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-375284","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\/375284","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=375284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375284\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/364355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}