Officials said a Los Angeles police sergeant is without a part of his pinky after it was bitten off by a man experiencing homelessness.
Thursday around 10:15 a.m. when a man aboard the train allegedly had drug paraphernalia on him. The LAPD officers approached the man, later identified as 36-year-old Ephraim Okorie, and escorted him off the train.
The LAPD sergeant was taken to the hospital after getting his pinky finger bit. The Sergeant was on overtime work when he was patrolling transit.
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