Suspect taken into custody following slashing of NYPD officer in Brooklyn
NEW YORK -- A police officer is recovering, after being attacked by a suspect in Brooklyn on Sunday morning.
The incident happened at around 11:15 a.m. at the Myrtle Street subway station in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of the borough.
Police said officers were responding to a report of an emotionally disturbed person, when one of them was slashed on the ear.
That officer was taken to a hospital with minor injuries.
The suspect has been arrested.
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