Two police officers were shot in a rare daytime incident in Brooklyn Saturday afternoon, a New York Police Department spokesperson confirmed to Mashable.
The spokesperson did not provide any further details about the circumstances of the shooting, or the condition of the officers. However, many New Yorkers tweeted unconfirmed accounts of the incident on social media
According to the New York Daily News , the shooting occurred in the Bedford Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, on Myrtle Ave., a historically high-crime area that has been transformed in recent years through gentrification and an influx of new businesses. Read more...
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