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?quality=90&strip=all&w=1286https://nypost.com/2019/12/31/wild-video-shows-violent-vigilante-beatdown-of-bronx-subway-abductor/
A man was arrested for trying to abduct a woman on a Bronx subway train early Sunday a horrifying encounter that was recorded by a nearby straphanger, police said.
Bronx resident Sonny Alloway, 48, was charged with unlawful imprisonment for allegedly grabbing the woman and carrying her off a 6 train at the Morrison Avenue-Soundview station about 2:45 a.m., according to police.
The victim was able to escape the fiends clutches just moments later, according to footage of the crime.
Alloway sat across from the woman, who was next to another man. He taps her several times as the train is in motion and tries to talk to her.
As the train pulls into the station and the trains doors open Alloway strikes.
The woman can heard cursing, saying, What the fk!
https://nypost.com/2019/12/31/see-it-man-attempts-to-abduct-woman-on-bronx-subway-train/
A group of vigilantes served up some street justice to a Bronx man charged with trying to abduct a young woman on the subway, disturbing new video shows.
The clip, which appears to have been recorded sometime after the early Sunday kidnapping attempt, shows at least three men pummeling and kicking the suspect, Sonny Alloway, who is lying on a sidewalk.
Youre a fking rapist, na! one of the men screams.
One man spits in Alloways bloodied face after he sputters, I tried to help her, bro. I didnt try to rape her.
The violent video was posted to social media after a first recording allegedly showed Alloway, 48, grabbing the young woman on a 6 train around 2:35 a.m. Sunday and trying to haul her off the train at the Morrison Avenue-Soundview station, police said.
Alloway scurried away to a nearby deli, where he was held by the same group of men until cops came to arrest him, police added. He was taken to a hospital for minor injuries.
https://www.amny.com/bronx/viral-video-shows-apparent-abduction-attempt-on-bronx-subway-train/
https://nypost.com/2020/01/02/alleged-bronx-kidnapper-claims-hes-actually-good-samaritan/
Arkansas Granny
(31,535 posts)Put the damned camera down and do something!
Demovictory9
(32,482 posts)Leith
(7,813 posts)The part in question is about 3 seconds. Alloway tried to talk to her on the subway (my memories from being young are that men often harass women who don't want their attention). After the train stopped and the doors opened, he suddenly grabbed her and ran off the train - which took about 2 seconds. The woman started shouting before they even got off the train.
We don't know if the person filming was even in a position to do anything. Nobody could have foreseen him grabbing her and taking her off the train. The filmer might not have been a strong young able fighter.
Let's not be so quick to disparage any of the witnesses or the men who caught up with the psycho.
Arkansas Granny
(31,535 posts)where a situation is being filmed by someone who can't put the phone down long enough to give assistance or call police. It would seem that they are more interested in posting a video on YouTube.