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VIDEO: Guardian Angels member resigns after scuffle on Manhattan subway train

NEW YORK (1010 WINS) – A Guardian Angels member resigned after video posted to Twitter by a state Assembly hopeful captured him scuffling with riders on a subway train this week.

Patrick Bobilin, who plans to run for the state Assembly's 76th District, captured the video aboard a Q train in midtown Manhattan on Thursday.


Bobilin said the Guardian Angels had "stalked" protesters who'd attended a demonstration outside of the historic Stonewall Inn on Thursday night.

"They were picking fights with riders from the march. One member got in my face while I was seated and then tried to karate kick me. Another rider intervened," Bobilin wrote in a tweet Friday morning along with video of the incident.

Guardian Angels founder Curtis Sliwa told the New York Post that the member "knew he had crossed the line" and resigned.

"We train for this, we have regular training, you have to withstand verbal abuse and physical intimidation and only physically use your skills when breaking up others who are fighting, who are in disputes or who have committed crimes," Sliwa said.

"In the Guardian Angels it's one strike and that's it, you just can't do that, we have the trust of the people," he said.

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