A New York police officer was shot and wounded while breaking up a street fight, Police Commissioner William Bratton and Mayor Bill de Blasio said in a rare pre-dawn press conference Saturday. The shooting comes amid heightened security - and paranoia - following attacks in California and Paris, and one day after a man claiming allegiance to the Islamic State group shot and wounded a police officer in Philadelphia.
Although neither Bratton nor de Blasio addressed the issue, it was clear that the New York shooting was unrelated to terrorism. Bratton said that around 2:10 am (0710 GMT) a plain clothes police officer in the Bronx borough was shot and wounded "in exchange of gunfire with a suspect." A fight had broken out at "a large jump up party with 100 to 200 people," and the fracas spilled into the street.