Police have arrested and charged the ex-senior banker who resigned from his job at boutique agency Moelis & Co. after a viral video confirmed him punching a girl in Brooklyn in June.
Jonathan Kaye, 52, a former Moelis managing director, was charged Monday for second- and third-degree assault, the New York Police Department instructed CBS MoneyWatch.
The expenses stem from an incident at a Brooklyn Pride occasion on June 8 that was captured on video and extensively shared on social media. It confirmed Kaye showing to strike a girl, inflicting her to fall to the bottom. The 38-year-old lady later filed a police report alleging that the punch brought on her a damaged nostril, lacerations and a black eye. She additionally mentioned she grew to become unconscious after hitting the bottom, in line with the report.
Representatives for Kaye, who’s Jewish, shared his perspective on the altercation Monday, after expenses have been filed. They declare Kaye was strolling previous a bunch of pro-Palestinian supporters who made antisemitic remarks and threw liquids at him. He “was surrounded, shoved to the bottom and additional attacked,” a spokesperson for Kaye instructed CBS MoneyWatch.
The punch he threw on the 38-year-old lady, which was captured on video, was in “self-defense,” his reps mentioned.
Kaye’s legal professional, Danya Perry, mentioned he was “terrorized, assaulted and surrounded by a bunch of unruly antisemitic protesters” and that the extensively shared video does not seize the occasions that led as much as the altercation.
“…Agitators shaped a hoop at him, doused him with two unknown liquids, shoved him to the bottom and hurled antisemitic slurs at him. Terrified and injured, Mr. Kaye managed to behave in self-defense to flee the state of affairs and return safely to his household,” Perry mentioned in a press release.
