All news on the topic: Assaults

The number of law enforcement officers killed in the line of duty decreased by 17.2% in 2025 compared to the previous year, although non-fatal assaults against police have been increasing since 2021, according to new data released Monday by the FBI.

A violent straphanger pummeled a 64-year-old woman when she confronted him about illegally smoking on a Bronx train, cops said – as they released footage of the still-at-large brute.

Mingus Lucien Reedus, age 25, appeared in Manhattan Criminal Court on Saturday night facing charges of assault, aggravated harassment, and obstructing breathing. According to the criminal complaint, these charges stem from allegations that he kicked his sleeping girlfriend and later threw her to the ground early Saturday morning

A mob of more than a dozen violent rioters attacked Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in San Francisco Wednesday, in a further sign of escalation in assaults against federal immigration authorities that resulted in charges for at least one who threatened to "stab" an agent.

And the suspect is believed to have attacked five other women on several Houston walking paths in recent months, according to Fox 26.

A viral video on X captured a man savagely beating a woman at a Rüfüs Du Sol concert at the Rose Bowl on Sunday night.

David Gary Sholar, 49, who once owned Edward Teach Brewing, faced charges of assault causing serious harm on August 7. This occurred two weeks following an alleged attack on a LongHorn Steakhouse worker, as reported by the Wilmington Police Department

According to the Guardian, 28-year-old Hashem Abedi caused severe injuries to three officers, leaving them hospitalized following the April 11th assault at the maximum-security HMP Frankland in Durham, England

The straphanger randomly shoved onto tracks by a muttering maniac Saturday is an ER pediatrician who was on his way home from work at the time — and is now just “happy he’s still alive,” his pal told The Post.

Matthew Edward Cameron, 22, was arrested on domestic battery charges. Police identified the victim as his mother, Diane Marie Cameron, according to an Orange County Sheriff's Department report obtained by the Daily Mail.

Teresa Theetge, the embattled Police Chief of Cincinnati, faced allegations of discriminating against white male officers in the promotion process, as detailed in a recently resurfaced lawsuit

Dominique Kittle was arrested in connection with the Cincinnati brawl, along with Jermaine Matthews, Montianez Merriweather and Dekyra Vernon.

The woman viciously pummeled in a viral Cincinnati brawl has returned home to Russia – as relatives of one of the attackers claims the brutal beatdown is only drawing national outrage because the victim is white, according to reports.

A woman was sexually assaulted by an unknown assailant wielding a knife in her Queens residence early Saturday, as reported by officials

The 56-year-old victim was dozing off on a southbound No. 1 train as it traveled through the 145th Street station in Harlem at about 6:10 a.m. when a 20-year-old assailant suddenly stabbed him in the head at least three times, according to police and sources

According to police, the male attacker hurled the unidentified substance at the 33-year-old NYPD traffic agent at the bustling intersection of 7th Avenue and 6th Street in Park Slope, surrounded by Brooklyn Methodist Hospital, a church, a Barnes & Noble, and a Bank of America

"I felt as if I had been struck in the face, which sent me sprawling on the ground," he recounted. "A few individuals nearby came to check on me and assisted me in getting up. Although I didn't lose consciousness, the blow did send me to the floor."

Dana Baraket walked up to the two officers at Broadway and 47th Street at approximately 1:20 a.m. and sprayed a substance in their eyes and face, according to the police and sources

Knox County Sheriff's deputy Dalton Swanger was beaten in the head with a rock or a brick while searching for a suspect in a residential Knoxville, Tennessee, neighborhood, according to reports.

Taveon Hargrove was extradited from Virginia and now faces attempted murder charges for a cowardly attack on an off-duty NYPD cop in the Bronx.

Audrey Harkins was at the well-known station to board the E train at about 9:30 a.m. on June 5 when a stranger sneaked up from behind and struck her with a metal object, she shared with The Post this week

According to police sources, a young mother was on a southbound M train nearing the Court Square-23rd Street station with her 11-month-old daughter when a man came up and requested to use her cell phone

A retired woman mourning her son's death was reportedly punched in the chest by an intoxicated passenger on a Delta Air Lines flight simply because she requested that a reclined seat be returned to its upright position, as stated in a federal lawsuit

Aurore Gonzalez, 73, who was reportedly assaulted by Marie McWilliams, 36, on May 1, expressed that she can't escape the frightening sensation that her attacker is still "behind" her