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Good Crime-Stats Report is Diverted By Seriously-Hurt Officer, London Terror

By MARK TOOR
Posted 6/12/17

The subject at an NYPD press conference June 5 was crime statistics—serious felonies were down as usual—but two weightier issues intruded: the injuries to a Brooklyn police officer dragged by a car and the most-recent terrorist attack in London.

Police Officer Dalsh Veve, 35, was injured just before midnight June 4 when he and other plainclothes officers responded to a shots-fired report in Brooklyn. Officer Veve stopped to question people inside a car, which took off as he was partially inside it. It dragged the officer 2½ blocks before it crashed into a pickup truck, throwing him to the ground.

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