{"id":205058,"date":"2021-03-18T04:43:31","date_gmt":"2021-03-18T01:43:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/samurai-sword-swinging-man-wrestles-with-cop-on-upper-east-side\/"},"modified":"2021-03-18T04:43:31","modified_gmt":"2021-03-18T01:43:31","slug":"samurai-sword-swinging-man-wrestles-with-cop-on-upper-east-side","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/samurai-sword-swinging-man-wrestles-with-cop-on-upper-east-side\/","title":{"rendered":"#Samurai sword-swinging man wrestles with cop on Upper East Side"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong>#Samurai sword-swinging man wrestles with cop on Upper East Side<\/strong>&#8221;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/03\/nyc-sword-wielder-arrested-623-1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>A samurai sword-wielding man was arrested last weekend after he punched an NYPD officer on the Upper East Side, authorities said Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The melee kicked off when police responded to a 911 call about a man recklessly swinging a katana on Madison Avenue near East 73rd Street shortly before 6 p.m. on Saturday, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>Cops confronted the suspect, later identified as Lower East Side resident Wilson Pichardo, 33, near 77th Street, where they said he refused orders to stop swinging the weapon.<\/p>\n<p>Pichardo then lunged at one of the cops, allegedly, punching him in the face and stomach several times, according to police.<\/p>\n<p>Pichardo was charged with one count of assault of an officer, two counts of attempted assault on an officer, resisting arrest, reckless endangerment, obstructing governmental administration and criminal possession of a weapon, police said.<\/p>\n<p>The officer was hospitalized and recovered from his injuries, according to authorities.<\/p>\n<p>Officers at the 19th precinct <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NYPD19Pct\/status\/1372265149386665989\">tweeted<\/a> a picture of the confiscated Japanese weapon, with a caption reading: \u201cWrong century. 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The melee kicked off when police responded to a 911 call about a man recklessly swinging a katana on Madison Avenue near East&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":205059,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/03\/nyc-sword-wielder-arrested-623-1.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1200","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[98092,70231,4998,4952,4953,5044,53323,28758],"class_list":["post-205058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-3-17-21","tag-arrests","tag-crime","tag-manhattan","tag-new-york-city","tag-nypd","tag-sword","tag-upper-east-side"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205058\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}