UNPROVOKED ATTACK: NYPD officers stabbed during Times Square New Year's Eve celebration
Multiple New York City Police officers were stabbed by a suspect wielding a machete just blocks away from the New Year's Eve celebrations in Times Square.
Police said at a news conference that the suspect approached the officers unprovoked. The incident remains under investigation, with the assistance of federal law enforcement. "The three officers were attacked today, they were doing their jobs," mayor Eric Adams said at the news conference."The jobs that members of the New York City Police Department and other first responders in law enforcement officers do every day."
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