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Update.............

According to ABC News:

Eyewitness News has learned that among the bikers on the Henry Hudson last weekend, were five off-duty NYPD officers. Sources say at least two detectives witnessed the attack on Alexian Lien and did not directly intervene. And investigators are still working to determine what role, if any, was played by the other three officers. What is clear, sources say, is that the men did not begin to come forward until late Wednesday, four full-days after the incident.[1]

http://intellihub.com/2013/10/05/5-duty-cops-among-bikers-assaulted-man-front-family/