NEW YORK (AP) — A driver who ran a red light threw a chemical liquid at a New York City police officer, drove away and then tossed a flaming Molotov cocktail as officers pursued him Saturday morning, authorities said.
Body camera footage shows the driver tossing a liquid — later identified as bleach — at an officer who had pulled him over in Brooklyn.
Authorities said the man sped off and then suddenly stopped, tossed the Molotov cocktail at the officers, before fleeing a second time. He later crashed his car and was arrested. An additional Molotov cocktail was found inside the vehicle, according to Police Chief Rodney Harrison.
There’s no such thing as “routine” when it comes to the brave work our officers do each and every day. https://t.co/6VcFcluHMP
— NYPD 40th Precinct (@NYPD40Pct) April 17, 2021
When cops in Brooklyn stopped a car this AM for running a red light, the driver threw a chemical at our officer before speeding off. Stopped again, the driver threw a lit Molotov cocktail at cops & fled before crashing. The man was arrested & more Molotov cocktails were recovered pic.twitter.com/gQPrADEKJI
— NYPD NEWS (@NYPDnews) April 17, 2021
“Fortunately, our officers weren’t injured,” the New York Police Department said in a tweet, noting how the incident “proved once again that no traffic enforcement is ‘routine.’”
Harrison tweeted Saturday evening that the liquid thrown at the officer was bleach.
The incident happened just before 8 a.m. Charges are pending for the 44-year-old driver, whose name was not immediately released, 1010 WINS AM reported. The officer splashed with the chemical substance, according to the report, was treated for minor chemical burns.
Police Commissioner Dermot Shea on Saturday suggested anti-police sentiment may have played a role in the incident.
“Words matter,” he wrote in a statement posted on Twitter. “Earlier this week we said that again after graffiti that proclaimed ‘kill cops.’ This morning, a Molotov cocktail thrown at an occupied marked police car. Now more than ever is the time to come together, to move forward together.”
Shea said the investigation into the attack remains active.
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He should have been stopped by a social worker. Nothing like this happens in California where cops have been relieved of mundane traffic issues.
IF this happened in commiefornia, he’d be getting PRAISED for what he did.
That *** wipe deserved to be shot for attacking a LEO.
As long as the stupid lefties keep turning away from this kind of action, our country will continue to decline.
TO ME< they are not "Turning away from it", they are fully EMBRACING and celebrating it.
blacks don’t do crime…..they do the majority of it and the left wingers in the media and government
are in total denial to this fact.
The people of New Yawk created this situation with decades of insane voting. They richly deserve everything happening in their state now.
Hence why i am shocked, that we’ve not seen a massive exodus of cops from the NY police forces…
Another product of the welfare state and nothing will happen to this less than animal. The liberal welfare state, where criminals are running society.
Knowing the leftists running the ‘show’ in NY, i will be shocked if he even gets CHARGED with a crime, let alone convicted and jailed…
Yes, “Black Lives Matter” but this one does not matter very much because he has summarily discounted it by his foolish behavior.