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Attempted Rape on East 4th Street Downplayed by Cops
Attempted Rape on East 4th Street Downplayed by Cops
Several people mentioned an attack on East 4th Street near Greenwood on September 24 here in the comments and in the KWT Yahoo group, but the closest info anyone got from the police was about a woman being bumped on the street and overreacting about it. But now the 28-year-old woman is speaking out, telling the Brooklyn Paper that the police didn't treat her case with enough concern:
...[she] told police that she was entering her building on E. Fourth Street at 11:30 pm when a thug pushed her up against her door and tried to grope her. She said that the goon fled after she screamed and a passerby approached with a dog....
The victim described her attacker as a thin Hispanic man in his mid 20s, weighing about 150 pounds — similar to the men wanted in other harrowing attacks across South Slope, Park Slope, Bay Ridge and Sunset Park.
But because she couldn’t see the man’s face in surveillance tapes, the police took her home.
Police say they're giving it the attention it deserves, but neighbors are worried that this is another example of poor conduct, following reports police ignored the video of one attack, and more recently reports that they have been telling women they're making themselves targets by the way they are dressed.
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