Police are looking for a suspect who committed an unprovoked assault against an 83-year-old man this week. They’re putting a notice out to the public for assistance in identifying and locating the suspect.
The incident took place on Wednesday, Feb. 8 at about 3:20 p.m.
The victim was crossing the street at 61st Street and Broadway when the unknown attacker shoved him to the ground. He then fled on foot southbound on Broadway.
The 83-year-old was then transported to Mt. Sinai West and treated for a laceration on the back of his head.
Police describe the suspect “as a male, 5’8” in height, approximately 180 lbs., and believed to be in his 30s. He was last seen wearing a black jacket and blue jeans.”
Anyone with information about the suspect and his whereabouts is asked to call the NYPD’s Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782). The public can also submit their tips by logging onto the CrimeStoppers website or by sending a direct message to @NYPDTips on Twitter. All calls are strictly confidential.
And social justice warriors still want to fight against Mayor Adams’ plan to round up all these dangerous mentally ill people?
Ryo,
Outside of the pushing an old man to the ground randomly, how would you ID this person as mentally unstable?
HIs clothes, his walk, his race?
Of course, he should be arrested and prosecuted for assault. However what you advocate is a “round up the usual suspects” approach. Not good policing, and certainly not social justice.
Jay, would you say that a person that pushes a random elderly person to the ground for no reason can be mentally stable? Are you arguing that it could be a rational act? Dont need to assess his clothes, walk and race to come to the conclusion that he is mentally unstable. The act speaks for itself.
Thank you Ed, for eloquently stating the obvious.
Scooter,
You do realize that Ed’s post contains a significant prevarication of omission?
Of did you not understand what Ryo is advocating?
One or the other.
Ed,
Probably not not mentally stable. But do you really think the police (the party Adams is most likely to task with what Ryo advocates) are in any position to judge mental stability?
You conveniently forgot that Ryo specified Adams. The post to which I responded is not simple call for better mental health attentions from the state.
Then the “act itself” itself is irrelevant to having stopped the act, if the pusher has not done anything like this before.
Correction, before I see double negative comments:
Probably not mentally stable.
“Probably not mentally stable.” So you are still unwilling to definitively say that a person that would commit this kind of horrible act was mentally unstable. Crazy people commit crazy acts. Quod Erat Demonstrandum.
I don’t think that people who supported the US invasion of Iraq are mentally stable.
That was one “crazy act” by a lot of people in the military who should know better.
I also don’t think that people who claim Trump won in 2020 are mental stable, nor do I think those who pushed Russiagate are mentally stable.
So you’d have the NYPD arrest a lot of people, some of whom are NYPD.