Student pulled to the ground in vile random attack
A young woman broke down in tears as she recalled a horrific random attack that has left her traumatised.
An NYU student was thrown to the ground while walking to class in Lower Manhattan on Monday morning — with the shocking and unprovoked attack caught on surveillance video.
Amelia Lewis said she was walking down Broadway shortly before 9:30am on Monday when a violent vagrant came up behind her and attacked her without warning.
“As I’m walking, like with my headphones on listening to music, I feel something slap me so hard, like literally on my ass,” Lewis said in a tearful TikTok post following the assault.
“And I was like, ‘Oh my God, oh that hurts so bad!’ I thought it was like one of my friends. I was gonna turn around and be like, ‘Oh, that hurt so bad, why did you do that?’”
“But when I turned around, I saw this old white guy. And like right when I turned around, he grabs my f**ing hair like this and yanks me and like threw me to the ground. My headphones went f**ing flying,” Lewis sobbed.
“And I was like on the ground and I saw him just bolt away down Waverly. And I was like, ‘Holy s**t? What the f**k just happened?’”
The chilling clip shows the thug creeping up behind Lewis before the attack, and fleeing while she lay on the ground as shocked bystanders came to her aid.
A person of interest in the frightening assault is in custody and facing charges of forcible touching, among other charges, sources said.
Meanwhile, the traumatised student issued a warning.
“I just really want to emphasise how not ok this is,” Lewis said in another post shared on X.
“I’m honestly still in shock, but I’m more enraged that things like this are able to happen in this city, and we really need to do something about it because this is unacceptable.
“This just shows that you really need to reflect on who you’re voting for and supporting right now, because New York needs help and we’re just not getting the help we need and this is crazy,” she added.
Lewis said her attacker was “a tall white male with tall brunette hair and a long brunette beard, and is wearing grey sweatpants and a big black fur jacket and a blue towel around his neck.”
This article originally appeared in the New York Post and was reproduced with permission
