A cardboard field full of official NYPD uniforms was discovered close to a Brooklyn cemetery, police stated Sunday.
The weird discover was reported to police at about 8:30 p.m. Tuesday on an industrial Borough Park road between Inexperienced-Wooden Cemetery and an MTA prepare yard, a NYPD spokesperson informed The Publish.
Cops sifted by means of the discarded field – containing pants, shirts, jackets and even hats – on the nook of thirty seventh Avenue and Ninth Avenue Tuesday night time, in response to a video posted to X on Jan. 1.
Officers moved the field to the closest precinct – positioned practically 2 miles away on sixteenth Avenue – for “safekeeping” a spokesperson stated.
An investigation is ongoing, the rep confirmed.
The invention got here lower than 48 hours earlier than Mayor Zohran Mamdani was inaugurated in Manhattan.
Some social media customers had speculated there is perhaps a connection to Mamdani’s swearing in regardless of nothing outwardly connecting the occasions.
Mamdani has been a harsh critic of the NYPD, and beforehand referred to as for defunding the drive in the course of the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests whereas describing officers as “racist” and “anti-queer.”
