Posted on 09/06/2023 1:05:23 AM PDT by Morgana
New York City cops let the suspect accused of beating a 60-year-old woman with her own cane walk free after interviewing him at the scene of the heinous attack.
Norton Blake, 43, was named by NYPD officials as the sole suspect in the attack on Laurell Reynolds, which occurred early Friday inside a Harlem subway station.
Officers questioned Blake but let him go without arresting him after he and Reynolds offered conflicting accounts of the attack, the New York Post reported.
The officers' handling of Blake at the scene is now under investigation, sources said. An NYPD spokesman did not comment when reached by DailyMail.com.
The victim Reynolds, who uses a walker, voiced her outrage, telling the Post in a bedside interview: 'They should've arrested him!'
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'I don't deserve that. Not at all, not at all … and I pray to God that it doesn't happen to no one else,' said Reynolds. 'They need to keep that man off the street.'
It's unclear whether police viewed bystander video of the attack before or after they cut Blake loose.
The video was filmed by a transit worker, who called the city's Rail Control Center, which in turn called 911, as she documented the attack, officials said.
NYPD Chief of Transit Michael Kemper named Blake as the prime suspect in the attack at a press conference on Tuesday.
Blake remained at large on Tuesday night, a law enforcement source confirmed to DailyMail.com.
Within days of the attack, the two-minute clip of the beating went viral - sparking a search for the man in footage after he successfully fled before cops arrived.
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Totally eschew NYC.
It’s of no furthur use.
I wouldn’t go to the state if you paid me.
Problem is, NY seems to be coming to ME
We are truly in the end times.
New York, keep voting liberal it is working great !
The cops and the prosecutor are part of the violent street gang.
The bear Jew needs to deal with the law enforcement thugs who are part of the attacking thug’s gang.
“Who ya gonna believe? Me or those lying videos????!!”
Only idiots live in nyc at this point.
The complete breakdown of Civilization.
Maybe she disrespected him
50 times
Satan/FJB/Klaus/WEF/Soros is in control of this world system.
For the time being.
If the old lady were white, she would have been arrested for a hate crime.
This is what the Democratic Party thinks is enforcing the law. It will only get worse unless we fight the Democrats now.
Conflicting accounts:
— 60 year old woman: He beat me with my own cane.
— 40 year old man: No, I didn’t. Video shows he did just that.
Cops: Well.....the perp says he didn’t do it, so we’ll just let him go.
I guess the new standard in Blue cities is that the perp has to confess, even if there is ironclad evidence tying him to the crime.
Folks have been saying that since the beginning of time.
Astonishing.
So the attacker walks free. On a previous FR thread, some posters wondered why no one stepped in to help the woman. That would have been the right thing to do.
However, that Good Samaritan would probably be in jail right now.
And yet the J-6 trespassers get 7 years in prison for trespassing.
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