Deranged Man Assaults Woman, Bystanders React
A woman was violently assaulted by a deranged man on Carroll Street this afternoon. A group of bystanders sprang into action – including the wife of a Shomrim Volunteer – and shielded the woman until Shomrim arrived and subdued the man.
The incident occurred at around 1:00pm on Carroll Street just off Troy Avenue. The victim, a non-Jewish Caucasian woman, was assaulted by a deranged African-American man, who grabbed the woman by her hair and threw her to the ground.
A large number of witnesses sprang into action, pulling the man off the woman and shielding her from being further assaulted. One of the people who came to the woman’s aid was the wife of a Shomrim volunteer, who pulled her car over, pulled the victim inside and locked the doors while calling her husband for help.
Shomrim arrived on the scene within moments and quickly got the man to calm down. A passing Hatzalah member began tending to the injured woman.
Police officers arrived within minutes and immediately took the man into custody.
Shomrim had had an encounter with the same man the day before. They received a number of calls of “a man acting belligerently;” he was menacing passersby and even shoved a Jewish man, but did not hurt anyone. While Shomrim waited for police to respond, the man disappeared into a building, and police never showed up.
person
Great work by passer byers and Shomrim along with NYPD.
yitzi
Wow. Thank you Shomrim. This is what we need in our community. Yashacoach
Brave
Brave shomrim wife.
tH
i’ve seen a few people who are deranged, roaming around the neighborhood….why are they just left like that? There is/was a woman who carries around a dirt bag, and talks to herself, and just stands on the sidewalk, resting her bag on a car. Why are these suffering people left like that until they bother people?
Milhouse
Because it’s a free country, and the government has no right to forcibly detain someone unless they have broken a law, or unless they can be proven to be a threat to themselves or others. Most crazy people are not threats to anybody, so the fact that someone is crazy is not enough to hold them.
to #4
its extremely hard to commit anyone. they will only hold them a couple of days and let them go.
the wife of the shomrim voulunteer
IS MY SIS!!!! HURRAY! What courage you got!