Man smashes bottle over NYPD cop’s head in ‘unprovoked attack’
An ex-con wearing a tie-dye T-shirt split a cop’s head open with a glass bottle on a Brooklyn sidewalk, and told the officer and his partner, “I’m going to kill you” when they busted him, authorities alleged Monday.
The officer’s body-worn camera captured the sneak attack early Sunday morning, which left the cop with multiple gashes to the head and neck that had to be closed with surgical staples and stitches, the NYPD said.
A 22-second clip posted on social media shows the cop was smoking a cigarette near a parked NYPD cruiser with flashing lights when a young man in a rainbow-colored shirt emblazoned with the words “FEED YOUR DREAM” inside a triangle approached and began speaking.
Without warning, the assailant lashed out at the cop and ran off as another cop chased after him, the video shows.
The cops were assigned to “a fixed post to address community concerns” when the attack took place around 4:45 a.m. near East 51st Street and Church Avenue in Flatbush, the NYPD said.
A suspect — identified by law-enforcement sources as Tyshaun Holloway, 27, of Hackensack, N.J. — was caught about a block away, where he allegedly began “flailing and swinging” to avoid arrest, an NYPD spokesman said.
Holloway stands just 5-foot-5 and weighs 160 pounds, according to jail records.
A criminal complaint alleges that he was found hiding under a parked car by the injured cop and his partner.
When they pulled him out, Holloway allegedly screamed, “Get off me, you f–king bitch, I’m going to kill you all as soon as I can,” according to the complaint.
Holloway was charged with assaulting a police officer, menacing, resisting arrest, obstruction of governmental administration, assault and criminal possession of a weapon.
Holloway has prior arrests that include a pair of September 2016 assaults on NYPD cops in The Bronx.
Those attacks stemmed from a groping incident in The Bronx, after which he hit an officer in the face while being placed under arrest, according to the Bronx District Attorney’s Office.
Holloway was then taken to the psychiatric ward at Lincoln Hospital, where he threw a piece of a heart monitor at a different cop who was guarding him and also tried to punch the cop, the DA’s Office said.
Holloway later struck a plea bargain to misdemeanor assault and forcible touching, for which he was sentenced to 30 days in jail.
He was later charged with two attempted robberies and accused of making terroristic threats in separate incidents in Harlem in 2017, sources said.
Details of those incidents weren’t immediately available, but online records show he was convicted in Manhattan of second-degree assault and sentenced to two years in prison.
He was paroled in 2019 and completed his post-release supervision in February.
Holloway, who is originally from Virginia, was arraigned Sunday in Brooklyn Criminal Court before Judge Kim Petersen, who ordered him held on $30,000 cash or bond pending another court appearance Friday, court and jail records show.
His Legal Aid lawyer’s voicemail box was full and she couldn’t immediately be reached for comment.