Crime & Safety
Grown Man Kicks 5-Year-Old Off Bike In Wash Square Park: NYPD
Police are looking for a man who kicked a five-year-old's bike as the child rode through Washington Square Park
WEST VILLAGE, NY — A grown man kicked a five-year-old's bike as the child rode through Washington Square Park, according to police.
The five-year-old was playing in the park on Feb. 26 at 5:08 p.m. when the man approached for no apparent reason and kicked the child's bike, causing him to fall off, according to police.
The man then kicked the kid's bike a second time as the five-year-old and his mother tried to leave the Lower Manhattan park, according to police. The child wasn't on the bike for the second kick, police said.
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Luckily, the child wasn't hurt in either engagement, according to the NYPD.
Police released a photo Thursday night of a man wanted in connection to the incident.
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Anyone with information in regard to this incident is asked to call the NYPD's Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477).
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