What He Was Talking About

At the informal Common Council meeting last week, Chief Ed Moore reported that in September the Hudson Police Department had been called eighteen times to deal with emotionally disturbed people and announced plans to create a field team "to go out and proactively confront these people and get them help." He told the Council that assembling this field team was in the works. 

While plans are afoot, the calls for the police to deal with such situations continue. Earlier today, the HPD issued this press release about an incident that happened over the weekend at Columbia Memorial Hospital:

Man Assaults Hospital Staff

On Saturday 10/16/21 at 2:42 a.m., HPD received phone reports that a man was causing a disturbance in the emergency room at Columbia Memorial Hospital. Patrols discovered Hyron U. Yi, 50 years old, from Greenport, NY, fighting with hospital security staff. The patrol assisted in getting Yi under control. Officers conducted interviews and identified several nurses who had been injured while trying to restrain Yi. Two nurses sustained injuries after falling; one received bruising to her back, and another received head and wrist contusions. Yi allegedly became combative after staff refused to allow him to smoke a cigarette in the emergency room. Yi sustained a serious injury to his hand after repeatedly punching a solid wall.

Upon release from the hospital, Yi was arrested on two counts of Felony Assault 2nd. He was arraigned in front of Hudson City Court Judge Brian Herman and remanded to the Columbia County jail in lieu of $1,000 cash bail/$2,500 bond.

The investigation in continuing.