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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I bet the cop’s attitude would be a bit different if it was his grandmother who was beaten by the feral primate. D’ya think?!
The NYPD should change their name to the NKVD. The police are becoming another domestic terrorist group.
No one in their right mind would be a cop in NYC. The ones that are left are not exactly the cream of the crop.
There’s video... doesn’t that count for anything?
I guess NYers will just have to live in fear
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