{"id":407280,"date":"2026-08-15T10:42:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-15T10:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/407280\/"},"modified":"2026-08-15T10:42:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T10:42:11","slug":"southside-place-officer-attacked-by-bird-outside-police-station-surveillance-video-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/407280\/","title":{"rendered":"Southside Place officer attacked by bird outside police station, surveillance video shows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ByNoah Key  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"KTRK logo\" class=\"awXxV NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl CfkUa EknAv NwgWd \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/origin-ktrk.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Saturday, August 15, 2026 12:52AM<\/p>\n<p>The surveillance video shows the bird diving and attacking the officer in the parking lot of the Southside Place police station.<\/p>\n<p>Southside Place Police Department<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">SOUTHSIDE PLACE, Texas (KTRK) &#8212; A police officer was attacked multiple times by a bird in Southside Place earlier in August, surveillance video shows.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">In a video recorded on Aug. 5 and later shared with Eyewitness News, the bird dives at the officer multiple times in the parking lot outside the Southside Place Police Department station.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">After the initial dive, the officer defends himself and swats away the other attack attempts, the video shows. After at least four dives from the bird, the video shows the officer then leaving the parking lot.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"In the video shared with ABC13, the Southside Place police officer is attacked multiple times by the bird.\" class=\"hsDdd NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl vBqtr KrDt itslR zFTjo hakZw HlUVI \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/19680229_bird-attack-southside-place-credit-img.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>In the video shared with ABC13, the Southside Place police officer is attacked multiple times by the bird.<\/p>\n<p>Southside Place Police Department<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 KTRK-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ByNoah Key Saturday, August 15, 2026 12:52AM The surveillance video shows the bird diving and attacking the officer&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":407281,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[142498,56,58,57],"class_list":["post-407280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-142498","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=407280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407280\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/407281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=407280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=407280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=407280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}