Registered Sex Offender Had 60-100 Prior Arrests, Then Shoved Woman, 92, So Her Head Hit Fire Hydrant
By Hank Berrien
Despite the fact that he has reportedly been arrested between 60-100 times, thanks to bail reform, a registered sex offender was out free walking on Third Avenue in the Gramercy Park area of New York City last Friday, when he decided to shove a 92-year-old woman down, causing her to hit her head on a fire hydrant.
The attack was caught on surveillance video. As the suspect, whom CBS New York identified as 31-year-old Rashid Brimmage, walked away, he looked back at the woman but did nothing to help her.
The woman, whom NBC New York identified only as “Geraldine,” said, “When they helped me up, I said ‘what happened’ because I didn’t even know what happened. It was completely out of the blue.”
She wound up at Mount Sinai Beth Israel hospital.
“I can’t believe that someone would do this,” she told CBS New York. After watching the video, she said, “Oh, he did look back. He did look back to see me fall on the floor, that rat!”
The woman gestured to her head, noting, “He hit me on the left – ow – that hurts to touch it. [My arm] was all bloody … This man did nothing except change my life and almost kill me.”
She continued, “With my visor on and my face mask, so he barely saw who I was. He just saw an elderly lady walking slowly and he decided I’m perfect for a victim. I’m not going to walk on the street alone right now, absolutely not.”