Posted on 07/04/2012 8:16:51 PM PDT by MindBender26
Days after an unruly crowd attacked lifeguards at Brooklyn's newly renovated McCarren Park pool, a police officer was punched in the face and another hurt his wrist in a confrontation with swimmers, authorities said.
Police said the officers, who were assigned to the pool, were injured Monday when trying to enforce the "No Dive" rule. A 20-year-old swimmer punched one of the officers in the side of the face. The second officer hurt his wrist while trying to handcuff the swimmer, police said.
Both officers were taken to Bellevue Hospital. Charges are pending against the 20-year-old suspect.
In a separate incident at the pool Monday, police say a 17-year-old man and an 18-year-old man were arrested and charged with inciting to riot against an officer and disorderly conduct.
Both incidents happened at about 5:30 p.m. The pool remained open.
Authorities heightened security at the public Olympic-sized pool after swimmers attacked a lifeguard who told them not to do backflips into the water on Friday.
No arrests were made in that incident.
"Every day since opening, the pool has operated at full 1,500-person capacity throughout the day," said Michael Dockett, Assistant Commissioner of Urban Park Service. "Parks Enforcement Patrol is present at all large city pools, and visitors who repeatedly violate the rules lose their right to use them."
The pool had been used as concert site in Williamsburg before the $50 million renovation. The pool was first opened in 1936 by then-Parks Commissioner Robert Moses
McCarren Pool isn’t in Williamsburg, it’s in Greenpoint.
When the local community ban together the prevent cops from doing thier job to make the streets safer, the criminals have a friend and become more brazen.
Sons Of Barack. SOBs.
They should lower it to 2 feet and let these clowns dive if they sign a waiver. Have a whole line of ambulances ready to take them to a new Obamacare-funded paraplegic center.
Police needed to maintain order at a swimming pool? How reflective of today’s problems. The city should just let these people sweat in the streets. Instead they were given a place to cool off and have a good time, and they can’t even behave themselves for a few hours and enjoy it. Pity for the cops who have to patrol the pool, in the sweltering heat and in full uniform. Has to be a really miserable assignment, let alone having to control the animals.
before the libs and feminists took over, cops in NYC had to be over 5’8”and pass a rigorous physical(climbing over 8’ walls, weights, boxing,1/2 mile runs, etc)Not too many challenges to their authority in those days.
Believe me, you would rather drop dead from a heat stroke than go anywhere near one of these city pools.
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