{"id":58590,"date":"2025-12-02T17:06:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T17:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/58590\/"},"modified":"2025-12-02T17:06:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T17:06:13","slug":"nyu-student-hit-shoved-to-the-ground-in-shocking-random-attack-on-way-to-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/58590\/","title":{"rendered":"NYU student hit, shoved to the ground in shocking random attack on way to class"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An NYU student was thrown to the ground while walking to class in Lower Manhattan on Monday morning \u2014 with the shocking and unprovoked attack caught on surveillance video.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just really want to emphasize how not OK this is. I am a student at NYU. I should not be scared to be walking the street to go to my 9:30 a.m. class,\u201d\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/AmeliaLewi33832\/status\/1995609549009813739\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Amelia Lewis emotionally recounted in a video shared on X<\/a>\u00a0along with footage of the assault.<\/p>\n<p>NYU student Amelia Lewis was thrown to the ground while walking to class in Lower Manhattan on Monday morning \u2013 with the shocking and unprovoked attack caught on surveillance video. X\/AmeliaLewi33832<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s honestly a really hard watch,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p>The chilling clip shows the thug follow the student as she crossed Broadway, before he comes up behind her, strikes her and shoves her to the ground.<\/p>\n<p>The video shows the man follow the student as Lewis crossed Broadway, then comes up behind her, strikes her and shoves her to the ground, and walks off. X\/AmeliaLewi33832<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udea8\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8 NYU STUDENT SHARES ASSAULT FOOTAGE AS SERIAL ATTACKER TARGETS WOMEN AROUND CAMPUS<\/p>\n<p>Another day in New York City.<\/p>\n<p>An NYU student has released surveillance footage of herself being violently assaulted on Broadway while walking to her 9:30 a.m. class. <\/p>\n<p>The video shows a man\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/TU5iGKqHI0\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/TU5iGKqHI0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MarioNawfal\/status\/1995723372873851001?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">December 2, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The brute then walks off as onlookers stare in shock.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m honestly still in shock, but I\u2019m more enraged that things like this are able to happen in this city, and we really need to do something about it because this is unacceptable,\u201d Lewis said. \u201cThis just shows that you really need to reflect on who you\u2019re voting for and supporting right now, because New York needs help and we\u2019re just not getting the help we need and this is crazy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m honestly still in shock, but I\u2019m more enraged that things like this are able to happen in this city, and we really need to do something about it because this is unacceptable,\u201d Lewis said in the X post. @AmeliaLewi33832<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just really want to emphasize how not OK this is. I am a student at NYU. I should not be scared to be walking the street to go to my 9:30 a.m. class,\u201d Lewis said. @amelia.lewis16<\/p>\n<p>There doesn\u2019t appear to be a complaint on file with the NYPD, but cops are investigating the incident, according to sources.<\/p>\n<p>The student said her attacker was \u201ca tall white male with tall brunette hair and a long brunette beard, and is wearing gray sweatpants and a big black fur jacket and a blue towel around his neck.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An NYU student was thrown to the ground while walking to class in Lower Manhattan on Monday morning&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":58591,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[357,57,9,11,10,22460,2585,58],"class_list":{"0":"post-58590","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-assaults","9":"tag-metro","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-headlines","12":"tag-new-york-news","13":"tag-nyu","14":"tag-students","15":"tag-us-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58590","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=58590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58590\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}