Surgeons tried to reattach the portion of the sergeant’s finger but were unable to do so.
LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles police sergeant was hospitalized after part of his finger was allegedly bitten off by a man he was escorting out of a metro station.
A police sergeant remains hospitalized after police say the suspect bit off part of his finger during the resulting fight. Surgeons tried to reattach the sergeant’s finger but were unable to do so. “We’re addressing those issues by way of increasing the amount of uniformed personnel that we have on the system, identifying where the hotspots are and deploying our resources,” said Metro Chief Security Officer Gina Osborn.
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