HARLEM — Police released shocking video of a woman using a walker being attacked and robbed by a group of people on a sidewalk in Upper Manhattan Tuesday night.
It happened on July 20 just before 8:30 p.m. at the corner of Eighth Avenue and West 151st Street in Harlem, police said.
The 61-year-old woman using a walker got into a dispute with three women and a man at the location, police said.
The suspects then approached the victim, pushed her to the ground and started to punch, kick and strike her in the head with a pot, according to police.
Video surveillance shows one of the suspects push the woman into the metal scaffolding frame while another woman hits her with a pot and the rest kick and drag her along the sidewalk.
The group then took the woman’s walker and her bag containing about $22 and credit cards and fled, authorities said.
The victim was taken to the hospital where she was treated for her injuries.
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