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.”