by Staff | Aug 6, 2012 4:22 pm

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A man challenged his roommate to a “man-on-man fight.” It turned into a man-on-cops fight.

Here’s what happened, according to police spokesman Officer Dave Hartman:

Just before 11 p.m. on Saturday, Officers Michael Lozada and Edwin DeJesus responded to an apartment on Edgewood Avenue on a report of a fight. As they approached the door of the apartment, the officers heard “a commotion.” They knocked on the door and a 33-year-old man opened it. He was bleeding from a wound to his knee.

The man told cops he’d challenged his roommate “to a ‘man-on-man fight,’ simply because they’re men and ‘that’s what men do,’” Hartman said. “When asked if he was alright, he replied they had fought, ‘but they are men, so they are fine.’”

Police found the roommate, who was uninjured. He told them the 33-year-old had attacked him and he defended himself.

As police waited for an ambulance that had been called for the 33-year-old, his behavior “vacillated between calm and aggressive.” The officers suspected he was on drugs, maybe PCP. The man’s “behavior worsened and he was handcuffed,” Hartman said.

When the ambulance arrived, police walked the man toward it and he tried several times to “throw himself from the stairs.”

Cops and EMTs belted the man to a stretcher and put him in the ambulance. When the ambulance doors closed, the man “reacted violently,” Hartman said. “He broke free from the nylon straps and kicked out the ambulance’s back window. He then attacked the EMT, kicking him in the head. The officers heard and saw the window glass fly at them, and rushed to control [the man]. The flying glass caused a laceration to [the roommate’s] leg. Another ambulance was called to treat him, as the officers used several pairs of handcuffs to control [the 33-year-old].”

Police arrested the man on two counts of assaulting a police or public safety officer, criminal mischief, breach of peace, and interfering.

In other police news, according to Hartman:

Stabbing: At 11:49 p.m. on Sunday, Officers Elliot Rosa and Michael Falcigno responded to the fire station at 73 East Grand Ave. A fire lieutenant told cops that a man had stopped in to use the phone. He was bleeding from two stab wounds and left in a grey Ford.

Officer Darryl Cargill spotted a gray Ford parked on Lenox Street, with a bloodied rag in the front seat. Someone pointed cops toward a nearby apartment, where they spoke with a man who told them he’d been attacked by his 21-year-old neighbor. The victim told cops he’d asked the 21-year-old if he’d seen his missing cell phone. The 21-year-old asked the victim into his apartment, brandished a kitchen knife and ordered the victim to the floor. When the victim got down, the 21-year-old pulled out a smaller knife and stabbed the man in the ribs. The victim fought off the 21-year-old and fled with the attacker running after him. The 21-year-old forced his way into the victim’s apartment and cut him again before fleeing.

The 21-year-old later turned himself in to police. He was arrested and charged with home invasion and assault.