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1 week agoNYPD Officer Struck By Hit-And-Run Driver During Traffic Stop: NYPD
An NYPD officer was injured by a hit-and-run driver during a traffic stop in Brooklyn.
Atlanta Falcons rookie James Pearce Jr. allegedly crashed his vehicle into one being driven by WNBA player Rickea Jackson multiple times and struck a police officer with the vehicle while evading arrest, according to the criminal complaint obtained by ESPN from the Miami-Dade County state attorney's office. Pearce was arrested Saturday in Florida on five felony charges, including aggravated battery with a deadly weapon, aggravated stalking and aggravated battery of a law enforcement officer.
The dramatic sequence, with a flood of police vehicles and armed officers moving through afternoon traffic at Notre Dame Avenue and West Julian Street, unfolded in the shadow of Highway 87. It drew even more attention after several eyewitness videos captured footage of the man, on the ground prone after presumably being shot, being run over by a trailing police SUV and the sound of several more gunshots as he lay splayed on the pavement.
A man has been arrested after a police officer was injured when a car ploughed through the gates of the Russian consulate in Sydney. Officers had tried to speak to the driver of the white SUV when it was parked in the driveway of the consulate in the city's eastern suburbs on Monday morning. But the 39-year-old man behind the wheel allegedly drove his vehicle into the gates of the property and on to its lawn, police said in a statement.