New York Cops, Firefighters, Fight Over Dying Man

The latest round in the battle of the badges erupted under the Manhattan Bridge after a 54-year-old father of two took a fatal plunge off the span into the East River, it was reported yesterday. The city's civil servants clashed Wednesday afternoon moments after Gim Sze Yee was recovered from the river by an FDNY boat crew.

The Bravest were met on shore by a pair of Emergency Service Unit cops, who wanted to give the man, in cardiac arrest, immediate medical attention - not realizing that fire medics wanted to move him to a dry area 50 yards away for defibrillation.

One of the ESU officers said, "I'm an EMT, let me check vitals," a Police Department source told FOX 5 News at 10.

"F- - - the medical s- - -," a battalion chief responded, said the source.

According to an internal FDNY memo obtained by Fox 5, an ESU detective grabbed the battalion chief's shirt to expose his name. The two exchanged words before the scuffle was broken up.

Yee was later pronounced dead at NYU Downtown Hospital.