Video: NYC commuters take down man for shoving straphanger onto subway tracks
By Heather Hauswirth, Larry Celona, Tina Moore and Max Jaeger, NY Post, August 1, 2019
Wild video obtained exclusively by The Post shows a group of good Samaritans banding together to bring a crazed subway maniac to justice — after he allegedly stole a cellphone, then shoved a New York Times illustrator onto some Manhattan subway tracks during the Thursday morning rush.
The clip shows a half-dozen brave straphangers calling for police and encircling the accused in order to block his escape, moments after the 10 a.m. incident on the F train platform at the Broadway-Lafayette station.
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The attacker, identified by police as homeless man Nathaniel Brown, 41, can be seen pacing with agitation as he tries to evade the good guys.
At one point, Brown rips off his shirt to wipe the sweat from his brow before trading blows with a passerby who tries to block his escape, footage shows.
He can also be seen bull-rushing though a phalanx of Samaritans, but as he’s charging upstairs, another quick-thinking commuter comes down the steps and heroically body-checks Brown backwards onto the ground, the clip shows.
Undeterred, he tries to get back up, but another straphanger hooks his ankle and sends him back to the ground.
“Call the cops!” someone yells as the video ends.
Police showed up at 10:15 a.m. and collared the man, who also injured an arresting officer’s wrist, according to cops.
Police sources say Brown first robbed someone of a cellphone on a No. 6 train at Spring and Canal streets minutes before.
A phone was recovered on him, and police used the device to track down its rightful owner, sources said.
Then he got into an argument with a 30-year-old stranger at Broadway-Lafayette at 10 a.m. and shoved him onto the tracks, fracturing the man’s hip and leaving him with cuts, cops said.
The fiend then spat on a 25-year-old who tried to help the first victim, according to police.
The 30-year-old victim was taken to Bellevue hospital, while the 25-year-old refused medical attention, cops said.
The Post confirmed the older victim is an illustrator for the New York Times, but is withholding his identity, because he was not available for a comment.
He was wearing a full neck brace when The Post visited him in the hospital Thursday afternoon.
Brown, meanwhile, was arrested on charges of assault and resisting arrest, police said.
He was also shouting “Allahu akbar” — a common Muslim prayer that has also been co-opted by religious extremists — when he was arrested, sources said.
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RhymesWithNews
4 years ago
Article from November 26, 2009 (Israeli news source)
Good thing he didn’t have any weapons or it could’ve been much worse. Here is your typical muzzrat, trying to score some points for his evil death cult. We should be rounding up all of these savages from western nations and shipping them back to where they came from.
A strap hanger is someone who rides the subway because they have straps in the ceiling for people to hang on to if all the seats are filled.
Some city buses had them in the 60’s.
LOL, I figured they were some sort of construction workers. Maybe construction workers that hang straps.
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
4 years ago
Bwahahahahahahahahaha, “Allah Ackbar” has been co-opted by “religious extwemists”. The unbelievable bullshite the enemedia spews to cover up islamic barbarity is laughable. When the f’ing Egyptian muslums crossed the Suez Canal in their third invasion of Israel in ’73’ during Ramadan guess what they were yelling?
Merchantseamen
4 years ago
Put him down and finish him. Yes it may be vigilantism. However these slobs are trying to kill you. Ollie Ollie snack bar was the key.
I see it as part of guerrilla warfare that will be the norm here if we do not expel and or kill off these invaders. They are everywhere and will do their death kill at any sign that they can win. Our country needs to get pointers from israel on how to change our attack motives on all those from deadly nazi-islam.
Dave Quilty
4 years ago
Toxic masculinity on display; someone call Liz Warren…impressed so many knew how to handle the,selves.
cassandra
4 years ago
Sorry but couldnt have happened to a more deserving taker of NY slimes blood- money. Was he the anti-semitic cartoonist? Who cares…
scherado
4 years ago
How is it that these men are known straphangers? Anyone? Do they have special insignia?
They must jump the turn styles. Who’s going to stop them.
cylde
4 years ago
Straphangers did not decline to get involved as most Europeans wait for authorities to show up if ever.
JC Bond
4 years ago
WHEN ARE WHITE CHRISTIANS GOING TO STAND UP AND CALL OUT RADICALISM IN THEIR COMMUNITY?? THEY MUST EXAMINE THEMSELVES MORALLY & WHAT THEY BELIEVE. THEY MUST TALK TO THEIR YOUTH. THEY MUST ADDRESS THEIR RELIGIOUS LEADERS IN CHURCH AND SUNDAY SCHOOLS. THEY MUST ADDRESS THEIR POLITICAL LEADERS AND PRESIDENT!! THEY MUST STOP USING THEIR WHITE CHRISTIAN BELIEFS FOR A HOLY WAR AGAINST EASTERN, LATINO & OTHER VALUES. WHEN WILL THEY SPEAK UP TO END THE VIOLENCE DONE IN THE NAME OF WHITE CHRISTIAN VALUES? GET THE IRONY?
White Christians or Christians of any color do not support violence in any shape or manner against others. Except in self defense.
Those deranged and/or hateful individuals who commitTed the massacres we have read about are not promoting a party, or an affiliation.
They seek only to gain personal fame, a sense of power and control, because the reality is that they have been unable to achieve anything in their lives.
They are losers, they are fringe, and possibly of mediocre intelligence.
They do not represent conservatives, or Christians, or anyone who believes in a kind, and just God.
That was my immediate reaction. Why isn’t there a uniformed office (or plainclothes officer) on EVERY platform in the City to help ensure civil order? Un-freaking believeable.
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There were transit police. They were a separate branch of law enforcement in NYC. But that was discontinued years ago. It used to be common to see cops in the stations for many years, but that has also been stopped. 15 minutes for the police to arrive! Just awful, but this is DeCommio’s NY.
Watcher
4 years ago
Is that hero on the stairs using an inhaler? Because if he is, I’m doubly impressed.
Liatris Spicata
4 years ago
HE WAS ALSO SHOUTING “ALLAHU AKBAR” — A COMMON MUSLIM PRAYER THAT HAS ALSO BEEN CO-OPTED BY RELIGIOUS EXTREMISTS — WHEN HE WAS ARRESTED, SOURCES SAID.
Oh yes, “co-opted” by Mohammad as he lead his merry band of murderous thugs on a pillage, rape, and murder foray.
Sheesh!
Roma Mikhasev
4 years ago
ordinary islam
Annie
4 years ago
Wonderful story. I loved the parts where the Muslim assaulter of innocent
people got slammed to the ground twice by Americans and held for the police.
Pantalones
4 years ago
Some imam put this bum up to it. I know it. The guys too out of it to understand what happened. Some imam worked on him since he’s too drugged out to understand and tell cops what happened.
Alleged-Comment
4 years ago
Looks like a fat deranged Negro. You see them all over the place. #Chipanzee%20smoking%201280×802
I’m impressed with the response of the commuters… less impressed with the police response. Where were they? Considering a person had already been injured, there should have been an immediate presence.
Hats off to the New Yorkers who jumped in to keep him from escaping..
how did it get to 15 minute response time from 2 minutes max. probably mandated to wait to respond. lf we don’t get this imbecile out of the mayor’s office things will only get worse. and yes it’s possible.
Dirt Doctor
4 years ago
Jihadists be AWARE – you are the new species in the Hunters Guide!! – big – stupid – & dangerous – did I mention STUPID!?
movingwaters
4 years ago
Some of those guys were much smaller than this crazed assailant, but they continues to keep him in check. Big hats off to those guys!
These men should be commended. They risked their own lives stopping this monster. I’m surprised that when the NYC police finally did arrive, they didn’t arrest these heroes.
mrcatman6
4 years ago
Pushing someone onto the train tracks is ATTEMPTED MURDER!
JGray1
4 years ago
we have no mayor. just a blob in the mayor’s office. like a sci fi movie from the nineteen fifties. and this blob even has a co-blob. both support and fund the evil skank linda sewer and her promotion of moslem sharia law. and of course support all police haters and anti semites. assaults on Jews in crown heights never somehow end in arrests and convictions. the police are constrained by the blobs and the muslims. in fact, the muslims even have their own police cars. sharia enforcers in new york city. yes. that’s how bad things are.
Stephen Honig
4 years ago
It gives me great pleasure in watching the video. Finally things have changed.
Tm.
4 years ago
OMG, where are the police??? What kind of city is that? I hate having to go through there.
NYC and their mayor…doing a great job. When are they going to elect some leader who will bring in law and order?
This is so scary. Thank you to the men in New York who were courageous and stayed a group and confronted this criminal.
Frustrated Beyond Belief
4 years ago
“He was wearing a full neck brace when The Post visited him in the hospital Thursday afternoon.”
I smell a LARGE LAWSUIT coming – to fund terrorism no doubt!
I believe the “Post” article meant that their reporters visited 30 year old victim with the broken hip in hospital, not the mudslime villain.
John Acord
4 years ago
As Pointed out earlier at least 20% of US prison inmates are Muslims. What that means in terms of dollars and cents is that every Muslim in the US on a proportionate scale is responsible for about $225,000 per year in annual crime costs.Just remember who is paying the price. Its you and I and every last one of us. Maybe we need another 2 million Muslims so the cost of crime can increase by another 25%.or an additional $700 BILLION A YEAR!
EXCELLENT point!!
To amplify that sorry-azz statistic for the benefit of taxpayers, it out to be called out as a separate line item in all state and federal budgets related to State and Federal prisons, municipal jails and DHS detention centers.
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shmo123
4 years ago
Since he didn’t kill anyone, or himself, he must belong to the moderate branch of Islam.
MrLogical
4 years ago
This is all a fiction. A complete fabrication. Never happened. Islam is THE “religion of peace” doncha’ know.
This man is simply a victim of white supremacy and racism inflicted by the white patriarchy.
Just ask any of the 20 Democrats running for Trump’s job… they will confirm.
(sarc)
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santashandler
4 years ago
Seems the good samaritans did a good job. An outstanding job, would have ended with that homeless piece of garbage on the tracks himself.
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