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NYPD cops injured breaking up dispute outside LES rap concert
By DANIEL EDWARD ROSEN

Last Updated: 1:29 AM, June 30, 2011


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Five police officers were injured in a melee that erupted outside a Lower East Side rap concert early Wednesday morning, cops said.

The officers were responding to a 911 call of a "dispute" at the Smif-N-Wessun and Pete Rock album release party at Tammany Hall on Orchard Street when they found the place to be over capacity, an NYPD spokesman said.

When cops started vacating Tammany Hall, one music lover refused to leave and punched one officer in the face, breaking the officer’s tooth, said the spokesman.

As the thug was being handcuffed by other officers, he screamed for help which "[incited] a riot," said the spokesman.

At least four other concert-goers began assaulting the officers — leaving one cop with a broken nose, and three others with cuts and bruises on their faces and necks, said the spokesman.

All cops were taken to Bellevue Hospital Center for treatment and released.

A total of five people were arrested at the scene, cops said.

None of their names were released Wednesday night.