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Three NYPD officers were injured successful an "unprovoked" onslaught with a agelong leaf adjacent Times Square connected New Year's Eve, metropolis officials said.
The incidental occurred conscionable aft 10 p.m. connected Saturday adjacent 52nd Street and 8th Avenue, extracurricular the unafraid country that had been acceptable up for New Year's Eve celebrations, Police Commissioner Keechant Sewell told reporters astatine a quality conference astatine Manhattan's Bellevue Hospital.
"Unprovoked, a 19-year-old antheral approached an serviceman and attempted to onslaught him implicit the caput with a machete," Sewell said. "The antheral past struck 2 further officers successful the caput with the machete."
A constabulary serviceman walks aft the archetypal nationalist New Year's lawsuit since the COVID-19 pandemic, astatine Times Square, successful New York, Jan. 1, 2023.
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One of the officers fired their weapon, striking the fishy successful the shoulder, Sewell said. The fishy was taken into custody, she said.
The 3 officers were taken to Bellevue, Sewell said.
"We are truly pleased by the effect and however our officers handled this situation," Mayor Eric Adams said. "All 3 of the officers are successful unchangeable conditions and determination are nary captious threats to New Yorkers astatine this time."
FBI Assistant Director successful Charge Mike Driscoll said the bureau's Joint Terrorism Task Force is progressive to "ascertain what is the quality of the attack." He said that the FBI believes the attacker was acting alone.
The New York Police Department released an representation of a weapon they said had been recovered astatine the country of an officer-involved shooting adjacent Times Square connected New Year's Eve.
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The NYPD released an image of a weapon, saying it had been recovered astatine the scene. The limb appeared to beryllium a Gurkha knife, a benignant of curved blade, according to ABC News contributor Darrell M. Blocker, a retired CIA operative.
Patrick Lynch, president of the Police Benevolent Association of the City of New York, said, "Let's deliberation astir those household members present who are successful daze close now, ne'er reasoning the archetypal telephone of the twelvemonth would beryllium their son, their husband, their household subordinate would beryllium present successful Bellevue Hospital."
Videos from the country appeared to amusement revellers jogging done the rainfall arsenic they were directed distant from the country by columns of constabulary officers.
David Lyugovski, of California, told ABC News that helium saw dozens of officers, immoderate with guns drawn, moving toward the country of the incident.
"They're each telling america to spell towards the viewing country for the shot driblet and everybody's running, everybody's panicking," Lyugovski said.
Lyugovski and his brother-in-law, Andrew Dyachkin, of South Carolina, were successful New York to ticker the Times Square shot drop, they said successful a associated video interview.
"Somebody's yelling, 'Calm down, calm down,' due to the fact that everybody's connected edge," Dyachkin said. "Like, I'm definite successful the backmost of each of our minds, present this could beryllium a people for, you know, shooting."
He added, “We thought idiosyncratic is trying to shoot, you know, arsenic galore radical arsenic possible. Another wide shooting.”
One of the officers progressive successful the incidental had graduated from the constabulary academy connected Friday, Sewell said.
Adams spoke astatine the officer's graduation ceremony, helium said.
"It conscionable goes to amusement you, it could beryllium your archetypal time oregon it could beryllium your past day, the actions that constabulary officers indispensable instrumentality each time are life-threatening situations," Adams said.
ABC News' Keith Harden and Patricio Chile contributed to this report.
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