NYPD

Fortunately, there doesn't seem to be anything to suggest that the first rumor is true, the one that had the police car that eventually wound up hitting the pedestrians on the sidewalk on Avenue D last night chasing a cyclist.  Unfortunately, it is entirely unclear what exactly they were "responding to" and they are being their usual contrary selves with information.  

http://gothamist.com/

scroll down for all of yesterday's NYPD antics.   I would link to other papers/direct stories, but gothamist broke it, so....