Woman allegedly slugged by millionaire banker at Brooklyn Pride event says attacker was ‘tornado of violence’
The woman seen being slugged in the face by a millionaire investment banker at a Brooklyn Pride event has claimed her attacker was a “tornado of violence” — as she insisted the brutality was entirely unprovoked.
The victim, only identified as Micah P, said she was left with a broken nose after she was hit by Jonathan Kaye, a managing director at Moelis & Co., in a caught-on-camera attack that sent her crashing down onto a Park Slope street Saturday night.
“He was literally a tornado of violence,” Micah told NBC4 on Tuesday.
She claimed that Kaye, who lives in the posh neighborhood, instigated the attack — denying claims by sources close to him that Micah and her friends had first hurled antisemitic slurs.
“There was nothing — no slurs were said whatsoever,” she told the outlet.
“We didn’t even get a chance to get a read of him. He was enraged and terrifying. He was a big, strange man who ran up on us and started swinging almost immediately.”
Micah claimed the chaos broke out after the stranger walked by her group outside a café near the corner of Fifth Avenue and Third Street and called them a “bunch of useful idiots.”
“He got about halfway down the block and I turned around and I said, ‘What did you say?’
“He turned back around and just started rushing us … and as he’s coming at us, I had a bottle of water. I just splashed it, like ‘Get away from us,’ you know,” she said.
Micah claims Kaye then allegedly pushed multiple people in her group, injuring himself in the process.
“One of our other friends was like, ‘Get off of them!’ He jumps up, runs after that person, they slipped out of their vest to get away and he fell down trying to chase them down,” Micah said.
“Fell face first on the concrete, scraping his ankle, jumping up. One person he shoved was like, ‘Are you OK?’ He jumps up, shoves another person. They hurt their arm and then he turns, and that’s the video you see him clock me.”
Footage of the ordeal, which doesn’t show the moments leading up to the brutal smackdown, captured a flustered Kaye allegedly walking away from Micah with his jacket covered in liquid in the aftermath.
“She f–king threw s–t all over me,” Kaye can be heard saying as others shouted around him.
The 10-second clip quickly exploded on social media and has already racked up well over 14 million views.
A source close to Kaye, however, earlier insisted to The Post that the violence broke out amid an argument about the Israel-Gaza war.
“They were marching, they had a flag, and Jonathan simply said something along the lines of, ‘You guys are on the wrong side,’” the source said, suggesting that Micah and her friends were members of an anti-Israel LGBTQ group.
“From there, about four people from the group came up to him, they circled him and threw red liquid on him,” the source claimed. “He tried to back away, but he was either chest-bumped or fell to the ground, smashing his knee and slicing his leg.”
The source claimed he then got up and used only the amount of force that was necessary “to get out of there” — noting that Kaye has no history of violence and no criminal record.
It comes after Kaye’s New York-based investment bank confirmed it was probing the Saturday night violence.
“We have become aware that one of our employees was involved in a serious incident in Brooklyn on June 8. We take this matter very seriously and are conducting an investigation,” a spokesperson for Moelis & Co. told The Post.
Meanwhile, cops are aware of the footage but don’t have a report on file about the incident.
Micah said she has no plans to file a police report and that she doesn’t want her alleged attacker arrested.
“I want him to be a better person after this, I want him to get anger management, therapy,” she said. “I want him to not be in a position of power until he’s able to be a better member of the community.”
