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Cops let suspect walk in heinous

caught-on-camera NYC subway beating
of 60-year-old woman: sources
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Published Sep. 5, 2023 Updated Sep. 5, 2023, 8:20 p.m. ET

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The ex-convict who allegedly beat a 60-year-old woman with
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subways after the heinous caught-on-camera assault — and the
officers’ response is now under investigation, The Post has
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identified by cops Tuesday as 43-year-old Norton Blake —
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“They should’ve arrested him!” Reynolds, who is disabled
and uses a walker and does not work, told The Post in a
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attack “Idon’t deserve that. Not at all, not at all … and I pray to God
that it doesn’t happen to no one else,” she added. “They
need to keep that man off the street.”
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A transit worker called the city’s Rail Control Center — which in turn contacted 911 — while she filmed the clad woman before climbing into back
of squad car
early-morning attack, according to Richard Davey, president of the New York City Transit Authority.

Cops spoke to both Reynolds and Blake when they arrived — and eventually cut the suspected brute 55,321
loose after the two offered conflicting accounts of what happened, according to law-enforcement sources.

Although the responding cops did see the video, it’s not clear whether they watched it before or after they
let Blake slip into the wind.

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“He could do this to someone else’s mother or father because they did not lock him up,” Reese, of the Beyoncé concert
Bronx, told The Post Tuesday about the officers’ actions.
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“That man could’ve killed my mother … You all did nothing. I have a problem with that,” she said of
nobody stepping in to help.

“He needs help — no, he shouldn’t be on the street,” Reese, who works at Crisis Management
System/Bronx Community Justice Center, said as she broke down in tears. “He just attacked my mother
and beat her with a cane. He don’t belong on the street.”

Blake — who sources say has nine prior arrests for a variety of crimes such as drug possession, assault,
trespassing and resisting arrest — gave police a fake name when they arrived, sources said.

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Lashanne Reese, Reynolds’ daughter, said she’s angry that nobody came to help her defenseless mom as the suspect
struck her more than 50 times.
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It’snot clear what precipitated the assault, though NYPD Chief of Transit Michael Kemper said Tuesday a
witness reported it spawned from an argument that broke out as the victim walked up the subway steps.

Reynolds, from her bed in Harlem Hospital, told The Post that she encountered Blake on the stairs in the
station — and he was less than cordial.

“Iwas trying to get my walker up the steps, and this man was coming down and he was like, ‘Move bi–h,
get out of the way,'” she recalled.

“He really started cursing at me,” she said. “Then he pushed me down and hit me with the cane and
knocked me down … he took my walker and he beat me.

“I’m trying to get him off me, because he’s hitting me and he’s beating me with this cane and he’s beating
me really hard and everything,” she continued. “He hit me in my head and everywhere and all over. It was
nothing I could do.”

Reynolds said the cops, when they arrived, didn’t do much to rectify the situation.

Laurell Reynolds recalls subway assault that left her hospitalized: "He
beat me"

“Itold the cops, ‘Lock him up, because he attacked me,” she said, adding that after they spoke to Blake,
they told her that if they lock him up, they’d have to lock her up too.

“I guess because I was trying to defend myself?” she said. “But you know, that’s not right at all.”

Reynolds can’t recall if she said anything to the alleged perp, whom she did not know.

“I’ve lost memory,” she said. “My eye was [swollen shut] … This is how bad he beat me, that I can’t recall.
The cane broke on me.”

Reynolds also said she was frustrated that the transit worker who filmed the ordeal never stepped in to
save her.

Disturbing video captures the moment Norton Blake allegedly beat

Reynolds with her own cane.
via Twitter

“I’m like, ‘Please help me, please help me!'” she said. “And they did not do nothing in that booth.”

Davey, the New York City Transit president, said the worker did exactly what she should have.

“This agent acted exactly how I would have expected. She was recording it, while reporting it,” he told The
Post.

“There is a video now of the crime, so whatever defense would be put up is going to be woefully undercut
as a result of the video,” he continued. “It is grotesque and disgusting and it will be, I hope, in front of a
court and a jury in short order.”

Blake still has not been found, though police officials believe he’ll be arrested soon.

A close-up shot of Blake, who is still on the run after he allegedly beat
Reynolds with her cane as she walked at a Harlem station early Friday.
via Twitter

Reynolds screamed at the man, according to the recording. He wrestled

the cane from her before he attacked her.
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The deranged man struck Reynolds more than 50 times with the cane,
then punched her.
via Twitter

Sources said the NYPD’s Internal Affairs Bureau is now investigating the response from the cops who
answered the 911 call.

Asked for comment, an NYPD spokesperson said, “This incident remains under investigation.”

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An ambulance brought Reynolds to the hospital about two hours later, sources told The Post. She has
been there since about 5 a.m. on Friday.

“Iam scared — I’m very scared because at any time you could get assaulted or attacked by somebody,
Reynolds said.

“Iam in a lot of pain and it’s bad,” she continued. “I can’t use the bathroom. I have used a pan to use the
bathroom now. I can’t do nothing, I can barely clean myself.”

Additional reporting by Amanda Woods

Filed under assault crime exclusive harlem manhattan mta nypd subways 9/5/23

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Knight3136
2 hours ago
There were other people on the platform who could have helped but decided not get involve
ecause if you do DA Bragg will charge you with a crime. If you are 50 years old and older than
shouldn't be outside after 9 pm. If you are female then I would have to say if you are 35 and
and under ...
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RS
2 hours ago
It's not the cops who let him go. It's the legal system that refuses to prosecute these repeat
ffenders. Why didn't someone step in, asked the daughter? Talk to the former Marine who
in to help on the subway.
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Tom Smith
2 hours ago
Voters should pass a new law requiring government workers and politicians to use the subways
public transportation.
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