At least three marked NYPD cars and an ambulance were vandalized in the Big Apple between Friday night and Saturday morning, hours before thousands of anti-Trump demonstrators took to the streets, police said.
A police cruiser was found parked at 73rd Street and Broadway in Jackson Heights, Queens, around 6 a.m. bearing yellow graffiti that read “FTP,” which protesters use to mean “f–k the police,” cops said.
A second marked car was found a few hours later on East 152nd Street and Tinton Avenue in the Bronx at 9:20 a.m., with what cops believe was a slashed tire, a police spokesman said.
Vandals sprayed the letters “FTP” on the side of a marked NYPD vehicle. Obtained by NY PostIn Manhattan, the back window of an ambulance was broken when it was struck by a rock at East 8th Street and University Place around 8 a.m. Saturday, police said.
The vandalism happened in the hours leading up to anti-Trump protests around the city. REUTERS
Someone also threw a glass bottle at the front windshield of a marked police cruiser at Marcus Garvey Boulevard and Madison in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, around 9 p.m. Friday, police said.
The vandalism happened about two days after police cars were set aflame in a parking lot outside a Brooklyn NYPD stationhouse in a suspected arson attack.
