A 36-year-old man is charged in an attack on a LAPD sergeant at a Metro station.
. Officers approached the man and escorted him off the train at the Vermont/Santa Monica Station.
Today we are hearing from Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass and a Director of the Los Angeles Police Union, one day after an officer had part of his finger bitten off by a man they were trying to escort off a Metro train. Alex Rozier reports for the NBC4 News on Apr.. 28, 2023. After Okorie was taken off the train, he fought with officers, police said. During the struggle, Okorie bit off a portion of a finger of an LAPD sergeant, police said."I'm deeply disturbed by the vicious and gruesome attack on our sergeant as he and other officers were simply conducting routine patrol of the transit line," LAPD Chief Michel Moore said in a statement.
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