Exclusive video obtained by News 12 shows the tense moments before and after a man pulled a knife and allegedly slashed another passenger aboard a Q train near Atlantic Avenue last week.\u00a0<\/p>\n
News 12 spoke exclusively with the woman who recorded the incident, who says she hopes everyone involved is held accountable.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The video begins with a man being placed in a chokehold on the train as shocked passengers react.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“Stop choking him,” one rider can be heard shouting.\u00a0<\/p>\n
But according to witness Sania Kaila, the confrontation started well before the cellphone video began rolling.<\/p>\n
“He sat down and the Black guy immediately, like I heard them arguing, he was like, ‘You need to say excuse me,'” Kaila told News 12. “And the bald guy said, ‘I did. I asked if you could move your leg.'”\u00a0<\/p>\n
Sania Kaila said that moments before she started recording, the man pictured in a black sweater was already involved in a separate fight with another passenger. She said the dispute began over a seat and eventually turned physical.\u00a0<\/p>\n
That’s when a 27-year-old man wearing a baseball cap intervened.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“I’m not saying the Black guy didn’t do anything wrong because at the end of the day he didn’t have to start a fight over a seat. It was never that deep,” Kaila said. “But at the end of the day, you inserted yourself into something that had nothing to do with you.”\u00a0<\/p>\n
After the chokehold was released, the man in the black sweater can be seen charging toward the 27-year-old, demanding to know why he got involved.\u00a0<\/p>\n
According to police, the confrontation escalated when the man in the black sweater pulled out a pocketknife. During the struggle, the 27-year-old suffered a slash wound to his hand.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“I followed him because he’s leaking a path of blood,” Sania Kalia said. “I followed them to see if they’re going to tell the police the truth.”\u00a0<\/p>\n
The NYPD says the suspect seen in the video is wanted for assault, and the search for him remains ongoing.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The injured 27-year-old is expected to be OK.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Exclusive video obtained by News 12 shows the tense moments before and after a man pulled a knife…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":310413,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-310412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=310412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310412\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/310413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}