A plainclothed Brooklyn cop was badly injured when he was pinned between cars during a routine traffic stop yesterday. According to the Post, the unidentified detective had pulled over a black vehicle in Flatbush with four men inside; he was standing behind the car when a white van rammed into him, crushing his legs and sending blood everywhere. “When they pulled him out of the car, his legs were hanging, dangling, it was terrible, there was blood everywhere,” said one witness.
Witness Manny Mora, owner of John Deli on the corner of Dorchester Road and Coney Island Avenue, said he saw the officer pinned between the bumper of a white van and the car the cop pulled over around 10:30 p.m. “It looked real bad," Mora said. "He was standing up pinned between the cars, but then another officer moved his car and then he fell down. His legs were broken. No question about that.”
The Post describes "rivulets of blood [tricking] out of the car’s rear door after he was transferred into an ambulance." The four men in the front vehicle stayed at the scene, as did the driver of the white van. No arrests were made at the scene, and the officer was brought to Kings County Hospital in serious condition and later transferred to Bellevue where he underwent surgery. You can see video of the ambulance leaving the scene below.
