Brooklyn Street Brawl Pits Cops Against Firefighters

The FDNY went up against the NYPD in a Brooklyn street brawl early Sunday morning, according to the New York Daily News.

Somewhat unsurprisingly, the cops won.

Off-duty city firefighter Aaron Gardner, 36, and his younger sister Janice Gardner, 35, an emergency medical technician (EMT) for the department, were arrested in Bed-Stuy around 12:20 a.m., the NYPD said in a statement.

The siblings had reportedly been brawling with two men in the neighborhood’s central Herbert Von King Park — a fight that allegedly began over a woman.

When police arrived to the park, they found a 47-year-old man with “cuts to his head and body” and a 22-year-old man “with head wounds after he was bludgeoned with a wooden stick,” reported the Daily News.

Police arrested Kenshawn Felton for assault, resisting arrest and possession of a weapon, cops said.

That’s when Janice Gardner, 35, took umbrage with the arrest and threw a closed-fist haymaker at one of the cops, police said.

As an officer tried to take Gardner into custody, her firefighter brother, 36-year-old Aaron Gardner, jumped in and punched a cop, police said.

The Gardner siblings were arrested at the scene and charged with assault, resisting arrest and obstruction of governmental administration, said the NYPD.

Just a couple days before, Janice Gardner was featured in an Associated Press piece on the FDNY’s attempts to diversify its employee base. She was pictured reportedly “working the recruitment table during a FDNY block party in the Harlem neighborhood of New York.”