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The NYPD’s ‘Tony Bees’ Explains His Battlefield Strategy

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After using a disorienting red light and chemical spray to take out a “basketball-size” hive of “aggressive” hornets outside a Bushwick church, NYPD hero Anthony “Tony Bees” Planakis described his process to DNAinfo: “Something like this, timing is of an essence. You have to hit them fast and hit them hard. You don’t let them know you’re there.”

NYPD’s ‘Tony Bees’ on His Battlefield Strategy