NEW YORK (WCBS 880) — A longer video clip of the vicious attack on a 65-year-old Asian-American woman in front of a Hell's Kitchen office building shows workers inside did come to the victim’s aid.
The brutal attack happened Monday as the victim was walking to church in front of a building in Hell’s Kitchen.
Initial surveillance footage released by the NYPD showed multiple workers standing inside the building, watching on as the assailant kicked, stomped and beat the victim to the ground.
One worker is even seen closing the building’s front door as the woman lays on the ground.
Police on Wednesday noted that they did not receive any 911 calls reporting the incident, despite the witnesses.
However, extended footage released to the New York Daily News revealed the building employees did come to the woman’s aid as she laid on the sidewalk.
The Brodsky Organization, the owner of the building on West 43rd street, told the paper that the employee closed the door “in response to the perpetrator brandishing a knife.”
The workers “did then emerge to assist the victim and flag down an NYPD officer,” the organization told the Daily News.
The organization noted to the outlet that the building employees will remain suspended “pending determination of whether all emergency protocols were sufficiently followed.”
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