By Ryan Gaydos, Fox News
An off-duty police officer was hailed a hero Sunday after he jumped on a coyote and strangled it as the animal attacked a girl on a New York playground, leaving her with an arm bite.
Kasey King-Petrellese, the girl’s mother, told NBC New York that the coyote appeared out of nowhere and sprinted “like a cheetah” toward 5-year-old Natalia and her 3-year-old brother in Thornwood.
The animal gained on them as they ran for their car, first attacking the boy.
“I took my foot and I kicked him as hard as I could in his face, which knocked him to the ground and he stumbled a little. And when he got up he swung over to my daughter’s side and bit her arm,” King-Petrellese said.
Natalia said the animal made her “bleed on the arm.”
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