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Suspect taken into custody following slashing of NYPD officer in Brooklyn

NEW YORK -- A police officer is recovering, after being attacked by a suspect in Brooklyn on Sunday morning.

The incident happened at around 11:15 a.m. at the Myrtle Street subway station in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of the borough.

Police said officers were responding to a report of an emotionally disturbed person, when one of them was slashed on the ear.

That officer was taken to a hospital with minor injuries.

The suspect has been arrested. 

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