BROOKLYN, N.Y. - A retired NYPD officer is in the hospital after being stabbed in Brooklyn over the weekend.

Police say he and another person got into an argument after a car crash Sunday night on Livonia and Georgia Avenue in East New York.

Things escalated, and that's when police say the officer was stabbed in his arm.

He was taken to the hospital and is expected to be okay.

Police say they have the person who attacked him in custody.