Posted on 12/30/2020 10:55:37 AM PST by CaptainK
A pack of young bicyclists attacked a BMW in broad daylight in Manhattan, terrorizing the man and woman inside in a terrifying ambush caught on video.
Several assailants surrounded the luxury ride at Fifth Avenue and 21st Street around 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, with some pounding the vehicle with their fists and feet, and another smashing a bike down on top of it, video posted to Instagram by Breaking911 shows.
One attacker got a running start, vaulted up on the hood of the BMW and jumped on top of the windshield, causing it to partly cave in, the video shows.
“This was an animalistic attack in broad daylight,“ said one Manhattan cop, noting that the vehicle’s occupants, a man and woman in their 50s, were scared for their lives. “It shows how far the city has deteriorated and the politicians better get their heads out of the sand and start to deal with these problems before there is nothing left.”
The same group similarly attacked a cab a short time later, the source said.
Both incidents are being probed.
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Whenever I ride the NYC subway I always stand well away from the track until the train has actually arrived.Psychos are plentiful in NYC and I wouldn’t want one of them to push me into an oncoming train.
100%
“At that point, I was afraid that they were going to break the window, get in the car, reach in, and pull us out,” Torgovnick said of himself and his mother, who is in her 70s. “My only thoughts at that moment were self-defense, [that] I wanted to protect my mother and I also didn’t want to hurt anyone.”
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