The violent arrest shocked bystanders, who said the NYPD cops completely overreacted to a low-level cycling offense. 'They were just fucking brutalizing the poor kid. Three cops to one person, the way they picked him up was crazy,' said Jesus, who works nearby and declined to share his last name. The heated incident comes as NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch has escalated enforcement against people on bikes and e-bikes this year by increasing low-level offenses to criminal summonses.
According to Dr. Katherine McKenzie, a trauma surgeon at Jamaica Hospital, Fisher suffered four gunshot wounds altogether. He had gunshot wounds to his left leg that injured his tibia bone, which is the main bone in your lower leg, between your knee and your ankle that provides support to that side of the body. He had injuries to his right wrist, Dr. McKenzie said. He sustained four gunshot wounds, two of them were through and through.
Six people are wanted in connection with a robbery last month in Brooklyn in which a 50-year-old man was beaten with an iron stick and had about $800 stolen, the NYPD said Thursday. The incident occurred on Friday, July 4, at approximately 4:30 a.m. in front of 827 59th Street, a residential building on the border of Borough Park and Sunset Park.
The men initially attempted to make their way into the residence through the front door but found it locked, the NYPD said. With the help of a neighbor, the officers were able to mount a fence and gain access to the yard of the burning home. Bodycam video of the rescue posted to the NYPD's Facebook page shows the officers using a chair to climb the fence.
Police are asking New Yorkers for help identifying skeletal remains found along the Jackie Robinson Parkway in Brooklyn's Cypress Hills area earlier this month. Department of Transportation workers found the human remains off a grassy area near the Jackie Robinson Parkway westbound Exit 1 on Aug. 6, according to the NYPD. Police described the victim as female, possibly Black or Hispanic and approximately 20 to 30 years of age.
Police from the 108th Precinct in Long Island City and Transit District 20 are looking for a suspect who allegedly stole a wallet from an R train rider in Woodside late last month. The incident occurred on the afternoon of Wednesday, July 30, inside the Broadway/Northern Boulevard subway station just before 3 p.m., when the 22-year-old victim dropped his wallet while passing through the turnstiles. A much older stranger stooped down, grabbed the wallet and fled on foot in an unknown direction, police said.
The NYPD says it happened around 11 p.m. Aug. 6 at Miller Avenue and New Lots Avenue. Investigators say the woman walked up to the 48-year-old driver and punched him in the face before running away.
WANTED FOR AN ASSAULT: on Tuesday, August 5, 2025, at approximately 8:45 P.M., inside 620 Atlantic Avenue, NYPD 78 Precinct, an unidentified individual threw an object which struck a 12-year-old female victim in the right leg.
Briant K. Nixon, 38, of Neptune Township, is charged with multiple second-degree crimes including a count of pattern of official misconduct and three counts of official misconduct and tampering with public records.