Crime & Safety

VIDEO: Brooklyn Woman Starts Cat Fight With Naked Model in Times Square

"You nasty! I don't like the way you look," the Brooklyn woman reportedly said before attacking a Times Square desnuda.

A young Brooklyn woman passing through Times Square in Manhattan around 3 p.m. on Saturday afternoon allegedly hurled insults at one of the square’s controversial painted nude models, or ”desnudas” — then tackled her to the ground.

Police said the two 20somethings were handcuffed and driven to the Midtown South station for disorderly conduct, but that both women declined to file charges against each other.

The desnuda was identified by police as Amanda Palmer, 27, from the Bronx, and her alleged attacker as Angela Portalatin, 22, from Brooklyn.

Florida resident Donna Myer told the New York Post that Portalatin walked past Palmer, then turned around and said: “‘You’re a nasty whore! You disgust me!’”

“Then she just came over and started beating the hell out of her,” Myer said.

A short witness video, embedded below, appears to show Portalatin and Palmer clawing at each other on the pavement while passing tourists attempt to pull them off one another.


Responding NYPD officers were the ones who ultimately separated the two women, according to a police spokeswoman.

Another video shot in the aftermath of the cat fight shows a smiling Palmer being handcuffed as a crowd of rubberneckers yells in her support.



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