New video captures UES beatdown of former NY Governor David Paterson and stepson

Here's the video.

[quote] The New York Police Department previously reported officers arrested a 12-year-old boy on a second-degree gang assault charge and a 13-year-old boy on a third-degree gang assault charge in the attack on the former governor, 70, who is legally blind, and his stepson Anthony Sliwa, 20.

[quote] Two others, Travor Nurse, 40, and Diamond Minter, 34, were taken into custody and charged with gang assault, police told USA TODAY on Tuesday. Both work for the NYC Housing Authority and police said on Tuesday they were both off duty at the time of the attack.

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[quote] Sean Darcy, a spokesperson for Paterson, said the attack involved [bold] people who had a previous interaction with the governor's stepson [/bold] as the pair took a walk around the block near their home with the family dog.

Why? The video in your OP post says why! How about you move your lazy ass and peruse the links you post.

Was it a racist hate crime?

Where are Guardian Angels when you actually need them?!

Cub reporter John Dias is a moist little snack cake...

Maybe they thought they were a gay couple?

Did he not see it coming?

I cannot believe he hasn’t been governor in 14 years. It seems just like yesterday.

Lol R8.

You're such an asshole.

Didn’t something happen to him while he was governor. When he first was appointed after Elliot Spitzer had to step down for frequenting whore houses. I remember some type of accident or something. Oh and yeah the people who beat them up are pure trash.

Are there any pics of the stepson?

R7 You might not be wrong. A lot of provincial blacks resent the money making gays who have moved into their neighborhoods. Not saying this was intentionally gay bashing, but when disputes, disagreements occur then all their homophobia comes out. Like how dare they come to my neighborhood and argue with me. I’ve seen it numerous times.

Wait a minute what I’m talking about. This is the upper east side. Disregard r13.

Please don't let them be......

......DAMN.

That neighborhood r13? 😆

Were are you? Sioux City, Iowa?

Too late—you’ve made a complete fool of yourself!

Is his stepson white. Any pics?

96th and Second is not Danger Zone.

R18 hasn’t figured out that the kid’s father is Curtis Silwa.

Maybe the assailants were from... NEW JERSEY!

R20 I didn’t know that. Curtis Silwa is so sexy to me. I love a dark white New Yorkish man.

David Paterson in a 2022 interview

“For the first time in my life—even in the late eighties and nineties when the crime rate was killing 2,000 people a year, I never felt as unsafe as I do now just walking around and God forbid, sometimes we take the subway home from WABC, and you’re hearing about an assault on the subway almost every other day,” the former governor said.

The man arrested had 21 prior arrests!

R23 I keep telling people it’s because crime is more spread out. Crime used to be concentrated in the poor ass ghettoes but gentrification has changed a lot of the demographics. But crime is still lower, it was just off the hook in black and Puerto Rican neighborhoods back then. The hoodlums of yesteryear would never go to the Upper East Side and jump a prominent person and their son. Because they knew the NYPD would beat the living shit out of them BEFORE arresting them; then they’d sit that ass in Rikers for a few months hurt and wounded lol.

1. Random crime is random *everywhere* in the city. I live between two huge NYCHA properties. One three blocks south and another two blocks north. There’s a $5 million dollar house for sale across the street. There’s a $15 million dollar house even closer to the projects. It is as safe as could be in ALL parts of the neighborhood.

2. No one would know Paterson from a random blind guy trying to navigate the subway.

3. You’re writing from the set of Death Wish.

during the 70s when Death Wish is set, I don't remember the National Guard being deployed to patrol the subway.

They had an entirely separate Transit Police Dept. then. As you should know.

What’s Death Wish?

No, I didn't know R28 but surely the point is how dangerous the subway is.

Huh?

Your point appear to be about safety officers in the subway. As to crime in the public transit system, the current rate is a fraction of the 70s crime rate.

You'd have to be a low-down dirty dog to attack a 70+ year old blind man.

These people are nothing but trash.

R33. They sure nuff are. Some people just walk around looking for opportunities to get in a fight. The last time I was in New York I was in a bodega in Bushwick and this low rent Mary J. Blige looking ass bitch comes in with her lil yorkie. So imagine the store is mad small and the dog is jumping all over the place. Cute lil dog. Anyways the dog jumps on my leg and this bitch says “If you kick my dog, Imma kick you”. The East New York was about to come all the way out of me, but the lil Puerto Rican guy working the counter was like “just let it go papi, she does this shit everyday with somebody” Fkin mentally ill crack babies.

R32 I don't think most people really give a fuck about how dangerous the subways were in the 70s. The point is the subways still aren't safe.

.David Paterson in a 2022 interview

“For the first time in my life—even in the late eighties and nineties when the crime rate was killing 2,000 people a year, I never felt as unsafe as I do now just walking around and God forbid, sometimes we take the subway home from WABC, and you’re hearing about an assault on the subway almost every other day,” the former governor said.

Ok— thx Tcake / Bmussy / et al.

I don't remember even in recent years MTA workers being victimized so frequently.

R35 the point is that NYC subways, and the city as a whole, are incredibly safe, especially as compared to even 25 years ago.

Incredibly safe! WTF!

Dee’s-ahole

Own up to it.

R38 but New Yorkers aren't feeling it

From March!

Ha!

The zillions of illegal immigrants pouring into NYC doesn't help things either.

Eldergays have the 1970s New York they've longed for.

sounds like they may just be part of the background noise when it comes to violence r43. Doesn't seem like native New Yorkers are eager to give up the crown of fucked up assholes to any recent arrivals.

R43 you’re nutz: it’s quadrillions. There are three people left in Venezuela —-they have all moved here.

[Quote] From March!

[Quote] Ha!

From the poster who's referencing 50 years ago!

[Quote] As to crime in the public transit system, the current rate is a fraction of the 70s crime rate.

[Quote] Eldergays have the 1970s New York they've longed for.

Seems that way!

Why are young black city housing employees milling around the upper East Side?

City housing jobs are shit. Hauling garbage, landscaping, housekeeping, security, etc.

[Quote]City housing jobs are shit. Hauling garbage, landscaping, housekeeping, security, etc.

still, it beats robbing and assaulting people.

RIFF RAFF is all over the place nowadays- even the upper east side.

NYC people are dying to leave

R42 Deborah Ramer, who has lived in the building for 23 years, said the neighborhood has been “going downhill” and she believes a lot of people are anxious because of surging crime and unhinged vagrants.

You sure love your NY Post, r53.

R53 fuck off. He was depressed. The neighborhood couldn’t be safer. There’s close to zero violent crime at Penn South and the adjacent part of Chelsea.

define safe

This is why people don't feel safe

random acts of terror committed by the insane do psychologically ruin cities for years

I think the crime in the 70s and 80s was due to mugging, robberies, beefs, etc. There was an end goal. I don't remember little old ladies and men being randomly assaulted for no reason.

They're still in the hospital after THAT? I've seen worse on playgrounds.

The end goal was to drive the community to ruin, purchase properties including valuable brownstone townhouses for nothing and quietly restore the neighborhood for the precious, precious

Sunday in New York

And wrong island

This has become so routine

crime wave

Holy shit even a governor is getting assaulted on the streets.

Is this a Former New Yorker/brandonjoseph thread?

R66 What goes around comes around

They seem to be aiming for the head lately

I thought crime was down?

what's down seems to be the age of the victims

[Quote] I thought crime was down?

That's what we were led to believe R70 but . . .

Cwime is down.

No safe spaces anymore

"It's a very strange shock to have someone come into our office and invade our space and assault me like that," he said. "No one here recognizes him - we don't have any disgruntled patients, so it was a very strange situation."

David and his stepson had previously confronted the attackers about climbing on fire escapes. So they basically started the beef.

No they didn’t. You need to spend more time in real life and get some perspective back.

Nonstop mayhem on the streets of NYC

Man stabbed in the eye inside Brooklyn subway station

Optometrist attacked while with patient on Upper East Side

I don't think residents in the Bronx are concerned about how horrendous it was decades ago

Residents said they are hesitant to be in that area due to safety concerns.

"No never. I never go inside. I don't want to," resident Sylvia Pena said.

Residents said what goes on right out front troubles them daily.