BEDFORD-STUYVESANT — Someone slashed the tires of five police cars outside the Brooklyn precinct where an off-duty officer who shot a motorist is based, officials said.
The slashing occurred around 12:55 a.m. Sunday on the block of the 79th Precinct on Greene Avenue, according to an NYPD spokesman.
The cars had their tires punctured or slashed, the spokesman said, along with the tires of seven other personal vehicles.
The cars were parked between Tompkins and Throop avenues, as first reported by the Daily News.
The incident is being investigated and officials are looking into the motive, officials said.
The tire slashings come after the deadly shooting of several officers in Dallas, Texas, and police-involved fatal shootings around the country.
“Obviously, it was targeting police. There’s no other way around it,” Louis Turco, president of the Lieutenants Benevolent Association, told the Daily News.
Off-duty officer Wayne Isaacs, who shot and killed unarmed Brooklyn man Delrawn Small in an apparent road-rage incident, worked out of Bed-Stuy’s 79th Precinct.
That incident is being investigated by the state Attorney General’s Office.
Turco added that he could not say if the tire slashing was in response to the Brooklyn shooting or police-involved shootings around the nation, according to the Daily News.
NYPD officers are under orders to patrol in pairs and authorities will closely monitor protests, Mayor Bill de Blasio and Police Commissioner William Bratton said Friday.
No arrests have been made for Sunday’s vandalism, police said.
