In early June, a 10-second video showing a man allegedly assaulting a woman on a New York City street during a Brooklyn Pride event went viral, with online outrage mobs calling for his identification and arrest.
It was soon revealed that the man’s name was Jonathan Kaye, a senior investment banker at Moelis & Co.:
Posters were even plastered on street poles with his name, phone number, home address, and employer:
Media outlets also joined in the feeding frenzy, with papers like the Daily Mail and the New York Post taking the short clip and running with it. They emphasized Kaye’s “millionaire” status as though it was a negative against him and the Post interviewed some of Kaye’s neighbors, who said they now lived in fear and claimed without evidence that he had a history of menacing behavior.
The outrage mobs put pressure on Moelis to fire Kaye:
Moelis soon announced they were investigating the incident, and put him on leave in the meantime:
Two weeks later, Kaye resigned:
Now here we are a week later, and not only has Kaye turned himself in, but a longer version of the video has surfaced, which puts things in context. It shows that it was a group of “Queers for Palestine” demonstrators who were harassing him and attacking him, presumably because he was Jewish:
The CCTV images, captured by a nearby restaurant, show Kaye emerging from the right side of the sidewalk, where the group of revelers appear to be hanging out on the corner.
The two parties appear to exchange words as Kaye walks by, but he continues walking, before glancing back at the group after they allegedly begin hurling slurs and insults.
As he continues up the sidewalk, he crosses paths with someone who appears to be returning to the same group of friends in the corner, and they exchange words as well.
It is unknown exactly what was said, but it was apparently provocative enough to cause Kaye to stop and turn around and approach the group.
The confrontation quickly turns chaotic and physical, with Kaye seen being surrounded and then shoved into the street, off screen, catching the attention of nearby onlookers.
After the altercation unfolds off camera, he reappears in frame seconds later and continues on his way down the sidewalk.
Watch:
The Post quoted one of Kaye’s lawyers, Danya Perry, saying that the evidence proves her client was acting in self-defense:
“He’s a law abiding man is a middle aged guy with zero history of violence. He was attacked by a group of violent protesters and defended himself to get home to his family. So, you know, we will be presenting more and more evidence to the DA that this was nothing more than self defense,” his attorney, Danya Perry, told The Post after Kaye’s arraignment.[…]Sources close to Kaye insisted days later that he’d only acted in self-defense after the group surrounded him and tossed liquid on him.Perry doubled down on Monday, saying Kaye had been “terrorized, assaulted, and surrounded by a group of unruly antisemitic protesters.”“What the previously released video clip does not show is what another video and other evidence we have shared with the DA does show: that these agitators formed a ring at him, doused him with two unknown liquids, shoved him to the ground, and hurled antisemitic slurs at him,” the attorney said in a statement.
Incredibly, as Kaye left a courtroom Monday, agitators showed up and harassed/attacked him again. Because this is New York City, they of course got away with it:
Not surprisingly, the person who put his hands on Kaye is a professional agitator:
A person named Micah P., one of Kaye’s alleged victims, posted a message on her Instagram alleging Kaye is a beneficiary of white privilege, though last I checked it was Kaye who was having his life ruined by accusations that appear to be false, not Micah:
Just found out Jonathan Kaye was arrested today and his felony assault charges were taken down to misdemeanors, so he can beat us up and cause permanent, lifelong injuries and get away with it because he’s a rich white man?I don’t even know how to move forward on this if folks have advice I’d love to hear it. The Brooklyn DA are cowards and I can’t believe this man is going to be able to walk away with essentially no record of his terror.
It looks like Micah is also a professional protester:
It’s always the same routine with these people. Every. Single. Time.
NYC Council Member Vickie Paladino summed up the state of things accordingly:
So a man was attacked on the street by a group of antisemitic thugs, defended himself, caused no injuries, and for that is now facing multiple charges and had to resign his position in investment banking.Oh and he will likely be targeted by radicals for the rest of his life.This is progressive ‘justice’, and it cannot continue. People are going to reach a breaking point.
Welcome to Joe Biden’s America, NYC edition.
— Stacey Matthews has also written under the pseudonym “Sister Toldjah” and can be reached via Twitter. —
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