{"id":60271,"date":"2025-12-04T00:37:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T00:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/60271\/"},"modified":"2025-12-04T00:37:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T00:37:08","slug":"two-nyc-correction-officers-attacked-in-4-hours-at-same-rikers-jail-one-by-menace-accused-of-brutal-subway-assault-union","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/60271\/","title":{"rendered":"Two NYC Correction officers attacked in 4 hours at same Rikers jail — one by menace accused of brutal subway assault: union"},"content":{"rendered":"

Two Corrections officers<\/a> were attacked in a brutal four-hour span at Rikers Island Wednesday \u2014 including one guard who was slashed by an infamous subway knifer, union officials said.<\/p>\n

The 11-year veteran officer was sliced at the island\u2019s Otis Bantum Correctional Center around 9:30 a.m. by reputed Crips gang member Shemar Shaw, 24, who attacked shortly after complaining about a misplaced tablet, the officer said in an exclusive interview.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cHe ran up behind me and I felt like he grabbed me from the back of my head and did, like a swipe motion across my face,\u201d said the officer, who asked to remain anonymous.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The 35-year-old officer was slashed with a sharpened piece of metal inside the Otis Bantum Correctional Center Wednesday morning. Obtained by the NY Post<\/p>\n

\u201cIt felt like pain, and like sandpaper going across my face,\u201d the officer said, noting that the weapon appeared to be a sharpened piece of metal. <\/p>\n

Shaw is being held in Rikers after he allegedly punched and knifed a 29-year-old man<\/a> in February because the victim bumped him on a train passing through Rockefeller Center, cops and prosecutors said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cSeeing how he did that\u2026in regular society, due to the laws, he knows that, all right, if I attack an officer here, it\u2019s not gonna really mean nothing to him,\u201d the injured officer said of Shaw\u2019s previous bust.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The officer was hospitalized after the attack.<\/p>\n

The alleged slasher was accused subway attacker Shemar Shaw, 24, according to the union. Obtained by the NY Post<\/p>\n

\u201cThank God that the weapon wasn\u2019t sharper than what it was,\u201d he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

About four hours later \u2013 while the jail was still on lockdown from the first attack \u2013 Bloods gang member Malik Cooke allegedly threw a burning rag at the injured officer\u2019s replacement, according to the Correction Officers\u2019 Benevolent Association (COBA).<\/p>\n

Around 2:50 p.m., Cooke allegedly manipulated his cell door so he could step out, light the cloth on fire and hurl it at the 48-year-old female officer, the union said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Four hours after the first attack, inmate Malik Cooke allegedly threw a burning rag at the injured officer\u2019s replacement.<\/p>\n

The officer, who has been on the job since 2011, was treated for smoke inhalation, but no serious burns, according to COBA.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Cooke was in custody on a second-degree burglary charge, online records show. Cops say he violated an order of protection in East Harlem in late July.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Meanwhile, the first attacked officer said this is the fourth time an inmate assaulted him, but the first time he\u2019d been slashed.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m definitely afraid,\u201d he said. \u201cBecause even though it\u2019s happened to me today, this could have happened to anybody, and this also has happened to people in the past as well\u2026.Now I feel their pain more than ever.\u201d<\/p>\n

The first assaulted officer, who has more than 11 years on the job, said he\u2019d been attacked by inmates three times before.<\/p>\n

He pushed for city lawmakers to make a change<\/a> to help keep Correction officers safe and stop violent inmates who now feel \u201cemboldened.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI want this job to be safer. Hopefully some type of law [passes] where I can come back to work and feel like I can take a breath, like I can actually breathe when it comes to work,\u201d he said. \u201cBecause right now, the anxiety every time I come to work, I don\u2019t know what\u2019s going to happen.\u201d<\/p>\n

DOC Commissioner Lynelle Maginley-Liddie confirmed the assaults and said the department is seeking justice for its two officers. <\/p>\n

\u201cAn officer was slashed and another assaulted while on duty, and we will pursue justice on their behalf,\u201d she said in a statement. \u201cThe assailant was immediately arrested, and we will seek prosecution to the fullest extent of the law. Our heroic staff work tirelessly to keep the people who live and work in our jails safe, and any act of violence against them will never be tolerated.\u201d<\/p>\n

COBA President Benny Boscio condemned the burst of jail violence in a strongly worded statement.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThese unprovoked attacks by violent gang members on our correction officers, who were simply doing their jobs, are not isolated incidents,\u201d Boscio said. \u201cThere have now been nearly 600 correction officers assaulted this past year.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two Corrections officers were attacked in a brutal four-hour span at Rikers Island Wednesday \u2014 including one guard…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":60272,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[22884,303,6809,57,9,56,63,65,64,1083,58],"class_list":["post-60271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-corrections-officers","tag-crime","tag-gangs","tag-metro","tag-new-york","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-rikers-island","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60271","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=60271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60271\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}