With the cover story of this week’s City Paper examining fat D.C. Police, and crime in the news, you’d think the District’s finest are under getting enough heat recently – but apparently someone felt the need to drag an officer with their car.

After a bizzare dragging incident near Union Station, one Park Police officer is in the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries and a suspect held pending charges:

WASHINGTON – One suspect is in custody for the dragging of a U.S. Park Police officer Monday in Northwest D.C.

D.C. police say the officer made a traffic stop shortly after 3 p.m. near First and ‘L’ Streets near the Greyhound bus station. He somehow became entangled in the car just as the driver hit the gas.

Investigators say the officer was dragged about a block and-a-half, but he managed to get his hand on his gun and fire a shot. He apparently hit the driver, and his car crashed on Oklahoma Avenue, after hitting several other vehicles …

CORRECTION: A reader correctly pointed out it was a U.S. Park Police officer involved in the accident, not a D.C. Metropolitan Police Officer. Thanks!