Vandals slashed the tires on seven marked NYPD vehicles parked outside a facility in Brooklyn, cops said Tuesday.
The police cruisers were found defaced around 4:30 p.m. on Monday in front of the Strategic Response Group 3 headquarters on Coney Island Avenue near Caton Place in Windsor Terrace, just outside Prospect Park, authorities said.
No description was immediately available of the vandals, or what they had used to slash the tires. No arrests had been made by Tuesday, police said.
The destruction was discovered the same day a “disorderly group” of ruffians pelted snowballs at uniformed NYPD cops who responded when a burst of winter revelry devolved into chaos at Washington Square Park, according to cops and footage.
The pandemonium was condemned by NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch as “disgraceful” and “criminal,” and it also drew swift rebukes from department unions.
The NYPD’s Strategic Response Group (SRG) is a special operations division that responds to citywide mobilizations, civil disorders and major events.
They also mobilize for emergency events like shootings and bank robberies, according to the department’s website.
During Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s campaign last year, he had vowed to disband the elite task force.
“As Mayor, I will disband the SRG, which has cost taxpayers millions in lawsuit settlements and brutalized countless New Yorkers exercising their First Amendment rights,” he wrote just two months after announcing his candidacy for mayor.
