{"id":333969,"date":"2026-01-26T16:47:01","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T21:47:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/officer-fatally-shoots-an-aggressive-raccoon-on-a-new-york-boardwalk"},"modified":"2026-01-26T16:47:04","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T21:47:04","slug":"officer-fatally-shoots-an-aggressive-raccoon-on-a-new-york-boardwalk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/officer-fatally-shoots-an-aggressive-raccoon-on-a-new-york-boardwalk","title":{"rendered":"Officer fatally shoots an aggressive raccoon on a New York boardwalk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"prism-article-body\">\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \"><span class=\"oyrPY qlwaB AGxeB \">NEW YORK &#8212; <\/span>A New York police officer who fatally shot a raccoon that aggressively charged toward people has been placed on modified duty while the matter is reviewed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The shooting occurred around 7:45 a.m. Thursday in Rockaway Beach, shortly after someone called 911 to report a vicious animal, a police department spokesperson said in an emailed statement Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Officers were trying to usher the racoon from a boardwalk to a safe location when the animal suddenly charged. An officer fired his weapon, striking the animal. No people were injured, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The officer&#8217;s name has not been released. The department&#8217;s Force Investigation Division, which reviews incidents when an officer discharges their weapon, is leading the department&#8217;s probe.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">It wasn\u2019t clear Monday if officials planned to test the raccoon for rabies.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/wireStory\/officer-fatally-shoots-aggressive-raccoon-new-york-boardwalk-129577813\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK &#8212; A New York police officer who fatally shot a raccoon that aggressively charged toward people has been placed on modified duty while [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":329101,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[12105,12107,12106,419,1606,12104,12103,3600,12108],"class_list":["post-333969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-a-new-york-police","tag-boardwalk","tag-mammals-of-the-caribbean","tag-new-york","tag-officer","tag-police-division-spokesperson","tag-pressure-investigation-division","tag-raccoon","tag-raccoon-island"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=333969"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333969\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":333971,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333969\/revisions\/333971"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/329101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}