BROOKLYN — Drunk men posing for a picture outside a Williamsburg church broke an angel statue while trying for the photo op, NYPD officials said.
The duo and a third person scaled the plinths on Saturday just minutes before midnight outside Our Lady of Consolation at 184 Metropolitan Ave., where a vandal in February destroyed another angel statue, police said.
The first suspect stood behind the waist-high statue as the other tried to climb up behind, knocking them both over, according to video released Tuesday morning.
"They look to be drunk and revelrous, to be quite honest," NYPD Chief of Detectives Robert Boyce said at an unrelated press conference Tuesday.
There have been four other similar incidents at the church since 2010, according to Boyce, and police made an arrest in September at the location for an intoxicated man "acting out."
"It's at Bedford and Metropolitan, a heavily traveled area. Each one we had, it looks like it's just drunken stupidity," he said, adding that the church is near several bars.
The picture-posers fled and hadn't been arrested as of Tuesday morning, police said.
Anyone with information should contact Crime Stoppers at (800) 577-TIPS (8477).
