As violent crime continues to soar in the Big Apple, a video of a woman getting assaulted on the New York City subway has gone viral, and the only thing more disturbing than her palpable fear is the lack of help she received from those who simply stood there while the incident was recorded for social media.
In the video, a man in a white hoodie can be heard ranting about some unclear injustice before he plops into the seat next to a woman in a tank top. When the nervous woman attempts to move away from the agitated rider, he reaches up, grabs her by the hair, and pulls her back down beside him.
The woman softly begs for someone to help her, but instead, the onlookers simply sit there, averting their eyes and doing nothing to assist the terrified woman.
The assailant stands and orders the woman to “Get up!” Still holding her by the hair, the man walks her to the front of the car and pushes her away from him before stomping to the other end of the car and shouting obscenities.
A woke young man — the videographer of this incident — turns the camera on himself and mumbles an inaudible lecture to his future viewers. He is drowned out by more of the aggressor’s outbursts as he began kicking the window.
“Just another day in new york city [sic] safest subway system, where innocent people are being harassed and assaulted,” tweeted one user along with the hair-raising clip.
Just another day in new york city safest subway system, where innocent people are being harassed and assaulted.
But the mayor wants you to ride the subway instead of driving, to save the environment. pic.twitter.com/9FfVzfzLoC
— Joel Fischer 🇺🇸 (@realJoelFischer) May 25, 2022
It didn’t take long for Twitter to make its thoughts known.
“Unbelievable!!!” exclaimed Denise Welch. “How could people see this and do nothing??”
“I find this shocking, honestly,” commented Karol Markowicz. “Even in the bad old 80s and 90s, someone would have helped. How could no one help her? What happened to New Yorkers?”
Christina Pushaw, spokesperson for Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, echoed the sentiment.
“This is humiliating,” she tweeted. “I used to live in a big city in a much poorer country than the USA. I took the metro there often. Despite all the problems in that country, this would not happen.”
“Why?” she asked. “Because every MAN on that train would jump to subdue the attacker & defend the woman.”
“They would not be walking around filming the assault on their phones and narrating it for social media like it’s a reality show,” she continued. “That would be considered humiliating behavior for a man in a situation like this. Seriously what’s wrong with people?”
In many respects, Pushaw noted, the video reveals where society’s priorities lay.
“It’s really sad,” she stated about those recording the assault. “They’re more worried about social media than about the woman who is being assaulted and terrorized.”
Humiliating soy-boys aside, one user just wants New York City Mayor Eric Adams to “DO the job You Were Elected To Do!”
Unbelievable!!! How could people see this and do nothing?? https://t.co/mQaL9MdmLi
— Denise Welch (@RealDeniseWelch) May 26, 2022
I find this shocking, honestly. Even in the bad old 80s and 90s, someone would have helped. How could no one help her? What happened to New Yorkers? https://t.co/rxFwvazrGw
— Karol Markowicz (@karol) May 26, 2022
They would not be walking around filming the assault on their phones and narrating it for social media like it’s a reality show. That would be considered humiliating behavior for a man in a situation like this. Seriously what’s wrong with people?
— Christina Pushaw 🐊 🇺🇸 (@ChristinaPushaw) May 26, 2022
It’s really sad. They’re more worried about social media than about the woman who is being assaulted and terrorized
— Christina Pushaw 🐊 🇺🇸 (@ChristinaPushaw) May 26, 2022
@NYCMayor
DO the Job You Were Elected To Do ! #NewYorkHellHole https://t.co/jg456OSwvA— Sandy8301 (@Magadad1) May 26, 2022
To that end, Mayor Adams has been busy.
Or, at least, his top cop, Police Commissioner Keechant Sewell, has been.
Sewell has played a large role in Adams’ PR push to attract businesses back to the Big Apple, the New York Post reports.
While no one was helping this poor woman on the subway, Sewell and Adams were holding virtual briefings with accounting firm giants Deloitte LLP, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Ernst & Young, and KPMG, to discuss, according to the employee invite, New York City’s “priorities centered on public safety, homelessness, and protecting our community members and economy.”
The briefing follows the unprovoked murder on Sunday of Daniel Enriquez, a Goldman Sachs employee who was killed on a Manhattan-bound Q train.
Said one source, the security briefing was a necessary measure because “People are scared to come to work.”
NEW: Mayor Adams’ top cop has been privately meeting with workers at top Big Apple businesses to convince them that NYC is safe as it struggles to get workers back full-time amid the uptick in violent crime, The Post has learned. https://t.co/04hVHpHryK
— Craig McCarthy (@craigmccarthynyc on Threads) (@createcraig) May 25, 2022
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