{"id":23362,"date":"2025-06-29T02:21:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-29T02:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/23362\/"},"modified":"2025-06-29T02:21:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-29T02:21:10","slug":"man-dies-after-foot-chase-with-nypd-in-nyc-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/23362\/","title":{"rendered":"Man dies after foot chase with NYPD in NYC park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 54-year-old man died in police custody after he ran from cops who were trying to stop him from <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2024\/06\/09\/us-news\/riverside-park-suffers-from-decaying-conditions-flood-issues-as-official-decries-screaming-moment-for-nyc-parks\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">boozing up in a Harlem park<\/a>, authorities said Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The man, whose identity wasn\u2019t immediately released, was in Riverside Park at West 137th Street and Riverside Drive around 10 p.m. Friday when cops saw him drinking alcohol and tried to stop him, a police source said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe ran from them,\u201d said the source, who added the man had a knife of indeterminate length on him \u2014 which is why he might have bolted.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.70099668;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"36381414\" width=\"1004\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/riverside-park-137th-street-107328477.jpg\" alt=\"Riverside Drive and 137th Street intersection.\" class=\"wp-image-36381414\"  \/>The unidentified man was in Riverside Park at West 137th Street and Riverside Drive around 10 p.m. on Friday. Google<\/p>\n<p>When police caught up to him after a brief chase, he was having trouble breathing, cops said.<\/p>\n<p>Police called an ambulance but the man couldn\u2019t be saved. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cOnce the ambulance arrived he went into cardiac arrest,\u201d the source said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/06\/28\/us-news\/electing-socialist-zohran-mamdani-nyc-mayor-would-spur-cop-exodus-rising-crime-experts\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The NYPD\u2019s<\/a> Force Investigation Division is probing the incident.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.50146628;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"36381413\" width=\"886\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/nypd-squad-car-strikes-two-105382715.jpg\" alt=\"NYPD vehicle side panel with logo.\" class=\"wp-image-36381413\"  \/>Cops said that the man was having trouble breathing after the brief police chase.<\/p>\n<p>It wasn\u2019t clear which unit the cops who were trying to stop the man were from, but the NYPD recently launched a<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/04\/10\/us-news\/find-out-where-the-nypds-new-quality-of-life-pilot-program-will-be-launching-this-week\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> quality of life policing initiative<\/a> to deal with minor infractions cited in 311 calls.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cQ-Team\u201d program,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/02\/26\/us-news\/nypd-launching-quality-of-life-commission-to-tackle-soaring-311-complaints-about-open-air-drug-use-panhandlers-and-more\/#!\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">announced by Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch in February<\/a>, kicked off in six precincts in April. The 30th precinct where the park is located was not one of the precincts in the pilot program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 54-year-old man died in police custody after he ran from cops who were trying to stop him&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":23363,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[2106,5229,5416,5248,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,5257,7207,21198,67,586,132,5230,68,1154,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-23362","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-alcohol","9":"tag-america","10":"tag-deaths","11":"tag-metro","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-city","14":"tag-newyork","15":"tag-newyorkcity","16":"tag-ny","17":"tag-nyc","18":"tag-nypd","19":"tag-police","20":"tag-riverside-park","21":"tag-united-states","22":"tag-united-states-of-america","23":"tag-unitedstates","24":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","25":"tag-us","26":"tag-us-news","27":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114764269867680513","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23362\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}