NEW YORK (AP) — Police were trying Thursday to determine what motivated a stabbing ambush of an officer on an anti-looting patrol in Brooklyn, an attack that spurred a struggle in which the suspect was shot and two other officers had gunshot injuries to their hands.
Officer Yayonfrant Jean Pierre, who was stabbed in the neck, and the other wounded officers, Randy Ramnarine and Dexter Chiu, were expected to recover. The suspect, whose name has not been released, was hospitalized in critical condition after being shot multiple times, Police Commissioner Dermot Shea said.
Shea said Thursday it is “preliminary to be making statements at this point” about the impetus for the stabbing or any of several other attacks on city police in recent days. Mayor Bill de Blasio said he was “not going to theorize on” motives for such attacks.
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