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Irate woman tossed out of NYC pet store for kicking puppy kennel ‘slaps the s–t out’ of tourist: ‘Welcome to New York’
By David Propper,
2024-02-21
A deranged woman ferociously slapped a tourist inside a New York City pet store over the weekend after she was told to leave for kicking puppy kennels, according to shocking footage and cops.
The “unprovoked” attack Saturday afternoon in Citipups in Chelsea left the victim, a woman visiting from Texas, with a bloody nose, the store manager told The Post as authorities were still seeking the suspect Tuesday.
Video captured by store manager Emilio Ortiz shows the disputative woman walking toward the exit before briefly turning to the tourist and smacking her on the side of the face. She then appeared to spit in the direction of the victim, the video shows.
A woman was caught violently slapping a tourist inside a New York City pet store over the weekend. Courtesy Citipups The suspect also tried to grab a phone from a manager who was recording the incident. Courtesy Citipups
“As she’s walking out, she slaps the s–t out of this lady,” Ortiz told The Post Tuesday. “Like, she slaps her really freaking hard.”
Ortiz provided new surveillance footage to The Post that shows the suspect initially causing trouble when she kicked the kennel a few times before she was confronted by an employee.
As she’s directed to leave, she approaches Ortiz, who was recording the incident, and tries to slap the phone out of his hand, the footage shows.
When his co-workers interjected, she tossed an item from the counter onto the floor as she headed toward the exit, where she carried out her sudden assault on the out-of-towner, according to the footage and Ortiz.
The incident started when the unidentified woman began kicking a puppy kennel at Citipups in Chelsea. Courtesy Citipups
“She was bleeding, she had a nosebleed, she was like really distraught because it was her first time in New York,” Ortiz said of the victim.
“So she was a tourist, and it’s, like, imagine being your first day in New York, you’re just walking around, all of a sudden some crazy person just assaults you.”
The customer who was slapped hails from Texas, Ortiz said. The NYPD said she filed a police report for assault following the incident.
Police said in an email Tuesday morning no arrest has been made.
“Her friend was there, too, and her friend called her husband, who’s a cop in Texas, and I was kind of like tongue-in-cheek saying to her even if they arrest this lady, they’re probably going to let her go tomorrow. This is the way New York has been operating right now,” Ortiz said in reference to the Empire State’s lax bail laws.
No arrest has been made in the case so far, police said earlier Tuesday. Courtesy Citipups
“And they were kind of like, ‘Oh hell no. In Texas we don’t let people get away with that.’ And I was like, ‘Well, welcome to New York.’”
He believes the suspect had “some sort of manic episode or something” during the unsettling incident.
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