Woman allegedly punched by millionaire banker at Brooklyn Pride event says attacker was a 'tornado of violence'

Metro

By Émilie Grue

The woman seen being punched in the face by a millionaire investment banker at a Brooklyn Pride event claimed her attacker was a 'tornado of violence' – as she insisted the brutality was absolutely unprovoked.

The victim, identified only as Micah P, said she was left with a broken nose after being punched by Jonathan Kaye, chief executive of Moelis & Co., in a videotaped attack that sent her s 'crush on a park. Rue des slopes Saturday evening.

“He was literally a tornado of violence,” Micah told NBC4 on Tuesday.

She claimed Kaye, who lives in the upscale neighborhood, was the instigator of the attack – denying claims from sources close to him that Micah and his friends had first hurled anti-Semitic slurs.

“There was nothing, no insults were said,” she told the media.

“We didn’t even get a chance to read it. He was furious and terrifying. It was a large, strange man who rushed towards us and started swinging almost immediately.

Micah claimed the chaos erupted after the stranger walked alongside his group outside a coffee shop near the corner of Fifth Avenue and Third Street and called them a “bunch of useful idiots.”

“He got halfway down the block and I turned around and said, 'What did you say?'

“He turned around and started rushing us…and as he approached us, I had a bottle of water. I just splashed it, like, 'Get away from us,' you know,” she said.

Micah claims that Kaye then pushed several people in his group, thereby injuring himself.

“One of our other friends said, ‘Let them go! “He jumps, runs after this person, they slipped out of their vest to run away and he fell trying to chase them,” Micah said.

“He fell face first onto the concrete, scraped his ankle and jumped. Someone he bumped into said to him, “Are you okay?” He jumps up, bumps into another person. They hurt their arm, and then he turns around, and that's the video where you see him timing me.

Footage from the ordeal, which does not show the moments leading up to the brutal brawl, captured an angry Kaye allegedly walking away from Micah with his jacket covered in liquid afterward.

“She threw shit everywhere at me,” Kaye can be heard saying as others around him shouted.

The 10-second clip quickly blew up on social media and has already racked up more than 14 million views.

A source close to Kaye, however, earlier insisted to the Post that the violence erupted amid a row over the war between Israel and Gaza.

“They were walking, they had a flag, and Jonathan just said something like, 'You're on the wrong side,'” the source said, suggesting that Micah and his friends were members of an anti-Israel LGBTQ group. .

“From there, about four people from the group approached him, surrounded him and threw red liquid at him,” the source claimed. “He tried to back away, but he was either hit in the chest or fell to the ground, shattering his knee and cutting his leg.”

The source claimed he then stood up and used only the force necessary “to get out of there” – noting that Kaye had no history of violence or criminal record.

It comes after Kaye's New York-based investment bank confirmed it was investigating Saturday night's violence.

“We have learned that one of our employees was involved in a serious incident in Brooklyn on June 8. We take this matter very seriously and are investigating,” a Moelis & Co spokesperson told the Post.

Meanwhile, the cops are aware of the footage but don't have a report on the incident on file.

Micah said she did not intend to file a police report and did not want her alleged attacker arrested.

“I want him to become a better person after this, I want him to go to anger management therapy,” she said. “I want him to stay out of a position of power until he is able to become a better member of the community.”