Brawl Breaks Out At West Village Diner, Police Said

WEST VILLAGE, NY — A brawl broke out at a West Village diner after three brutes attacked a woman who refused to delete a video from her cell phone, police said Tuesday.

The two men and a woman wrestled with the victim for the phone at the Good Stuff Diner on 14th Street between Sixth and Seventh avenues on Aug. 5 at 4:40 a.m., authorities said. The 22-year-old woman had taken a cell phone video of a man wearing all black and a gold chain with a pendant that reads, "2X."

After refusing to erase the video, the enraged man grabbed the woman's phone while his friend pounced on the woman and choked her until she passed out by placing her head between his arms and squeezing. The choker, who police describe as bald with a beard, was wearing a gray shirt, sneakers and denim shorts.

He began punching the victim in the face when another woman joined in, who was wearing a pink baseball hat, white shoes and a gray sweatpants.

The victim suffered a cut on her chin, a swollen lip and was bleeding from the mouth, police said. The trio of toughs fled the diner in an unknown direction.

Anyone with information in regards to this incident is asked to call the NYPD's Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782).

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