NYPD investigating whether three cops were served poisoned milkshakes at downtown Manhattan Shake Shack

Police investigate after three officers suffered food poisoning symptoms after drinking milkshakes from Shake Shack at 200 Broadway in Manhattan, New York City on Monday, June 15.
Police investigate after three officers suffered food poisoning symptoms after drinking milkshakes from Shake Shack at 200 Broadway in Manhattan, New York City on Monday, June 15. 

Three police officers fell ill Monday after drinking milkshakes at a Manhattan Shake Shack, and the NYPD was investigating if they were poisoned with bleach.
The officers ordered a meal at the burger chain’s location at Broadway and Fulton St. at about 8:30 p.m. and noticed their shakes tasted strange, police sources said. One of the officers noticed a “clump of something” in one of their cups, and a second cop smelled bleach before all three fell ill, sources said.
Investigators found a bottle of cleaning fluid used to clean the shake machines, though it’s not clear if the officers were targeted, sources said.
The three cops were hospitalized at New York Downtown hospital and are recovering in stable condition, police said. All three are members of the Bronx’s 42nd Precinct, assigned to a protest detail.

One of the questionable milkshakes is pictured late Monday night.
One of the questionable milkshakes is pictured late Monday night. (Gardiner Anderson/for New York Daily News)
More than two dozen officers and detectives were questioning workers at the restaurant, which is located on an upper level of the Fulton Transit Center.
Officers sifted through the trash containers outside, standing guard over two milkshakes on the sidewalk, while members of the Crime Scene Unit and the Real-Time Crime Center worked inside the building.
“They were looking in all the garbage cans and then a lot of cops went into Shake Shack. I thought they were looking for guns or drugs, some sort of evidence,” John Goldman, 23, of the Bronx, an MTA cleaner, told the Daily News. “This is the first time anything like this has happened.”
Early Tuesday, three Shake Shack workers, two men and a woman, were escorted into an NYPD van from the 42nd Precinct. None of the three were in handcuffs.
The city’s police unions called the incident a deliberate attack on the officers, though an NYPD spokesman said investigators are still questioning workers at the restaurant and haven’t determined if the cops were intentionally poisoned.

“When NYC police officers cannot even take meal without coming under attack, it is clear that environment in which we work has deteriorated to a critical level. We cannot afford to let our guard down for even a moment,” the Police Benevolent Association wrote on its Twitter feed.
Police investigate after three officers suffered food poisoning symptoms after drinking milkshakes (pictured) from Shake Shack at 200 Broadway in Manhattan, New York City on Monday, June 15.
Police investigate after three officers suffered food poisoning symptoms after drinking milkshakes (pictured) from Shake Shack at 200 Broadway in Manhattan, New York City on Monday, June 15. (Gardiner Anderson/for New York Daily News)
The Detectives Endowment Association issued a similar warning to its members.
“Tonight, three of our brothers in blue were intentionally poisoned by one or more workers at the Shake Shack at 200 Broadway in Manhattan,” DEA President Paul DiGiacomo said. “After tasting the milk shakes they purchased they became ill, making it necessary for them to go to an area hospital. Fortunately, our fellow officers were not seriously harmed.”
Shake Shack representatives said they were cooperating with the police investigation.
“We are horrified by the reports of police officers injured at our 200 Broadway Shack in Manhattan,” the chain tweeted just before 11:50 p.m. “We are working with the police in their investigation right now.”

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