A disturbing video from the United States showing a white guy striking a 60-year-old Black woman with her own cane over 50 times in a Harlem subway station has gone viral over social media.
The New York Post reported that the attack occurred at 3:30 am on Friday when the woman was walking at the West 116 Street and Lenox Avenue station, NYPD officials told the outlet.
The shocking, two-minute video shows the unidentified male lunging at the woman with an umbrella and the woman trying to fight him off with her cane.
The suspect is able to grab the woman’s cane as she falls to the ground screaming.
The man then strikes the woman with her own cane more than 50 times in the head, stomach, leg, arms, back and hands so hard that the wooden implement falls apart.
The NYPD responded to the 911 call of an assault at about 3:30 a.m., sources told The Post, but during the video of the beating, no MTA workers, police or subway riders intervened.
NYPD sources also told The Post the 60-year-old woman did not know the suspect.
The attack has shocked and horrified the community. Many people are calling for the suspect to be brought to justice. The police are asking anyone with information about the attack to come forward.
