NEW YORK (1010 WINS) – Republican mayoral candidate Curtis Sliwa intervened as a ranting man yelled at strangers, including a woman and young girl, on a Bronx street Wednesday afternoon, video shows.
The video obtained by the New York Post shows Sliwa trying to calm the man down as he shouts at random passersby near Fordham Road and Webster Avenue in Fordham Heights, where the mayoral hopeful was taking part in a press conference about illegal street vendors.
“Relax, relax, relax,” Sliwa tells the man as the man shouts things like “You never fed me” and “You lied my wife.”
A woman who was with a girl appeared to pull out a knife during the altercation, telling the man, "You better not hurt my baby."
“Get this man out of here, please,” the woman tells Sliwa.
Sliwa told the Post that the man had been thrown out of a Walgreens by security before he started yelling at people.
“He was just volatile, dropping the N-bomb,” Sliwa said. “I walked up to him and wedged myself between him and the crowd. He knew who I was but still I had a hard time calming him down.”
Sliwa, the Guaridan Angels founder who’s no stranger to such incidents, said he escorted the man up the road.
“Unfortunately, this is more common and more normal,” Sliwa said, adding that no police came and “it was left to me to deal with it.”
The NYPD told the Post that they didn’t get any 911 calls about the incident.
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