Ten NYPD Officers Injured, 63 Arrested as Knicks Championship Celebration Turns Violent in Midtown Manhattan
New Delhi, June 14 -- NEW YORK - The night was supposed to belong to the city. Instead, by 2 a.m. Sunday, Times Square looked like a dispatch from some other, darker celebration - buses burning, police in riot gear, a teenager shot once in the left foot and unable to get an ambulance because the crowd had swallowed 42nd Street whole.
The New York Police Department confirmed Sunday that ten of its officers were injured and 63 people arrested during and after the New York Knicks' NBA championship win over the San Antonio Spurs - the franchise's first title since 1973. One officer was punched in the face. Another was struck with a glass bottle. A 17-year-old was shot near the intersection of 43rd Street and Broadway and taken to the hospita...
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