A man ambushed a police officer in Flatbush stabbing him in the neck. Two responding officers were shot. The suspect was shot eight times, sources say.
He was hospitalized. Robert Moses reports. NEW YORK - A New York City police officer on an anti-looting patrol was ambushed Wednesday in Brooklyn by a man who walked up behind him and stabbed him in the neck, police said, setting off a struggle in which the assailant was shot and two other officers suffered gunshot injuries to their hands.
The bloodshed happened just before midnight in the hours after an 8 p.m. curfew that was intended to quell days of unrest over the death of George Floyd in Minnesota.