Previously unseen footage has shed new light on the moments just before investment banker Jonathan Kaye slugged a woman at a Brooklyn Pride event.
Kaye, 52, turned himself in Monday and was booked on second- and third-degree assault charges stemming from the June 8 incident.
In new video shared with The Post by the victim’s attorney, Kaye can be seen briefly exchanging terse words with an anti-Israel LGBTQ group near the corner of Fifth Avenue and Third Street in Park Slope.
A member of the group douses Kaye with what appears to be water, at which point the banker shoves one of them and asks, incredulously, “you’re gonna throw s–t at me?”
The group taunts Kaye, and moments later someone else splashes him with red Gatorade, evidence of which was seen in previous coverage of the incident, the plastic bottle hitting him in face.
This final provocation sends him into a rage, and he charges towards the group, who scatter. As he appears to try to grab for someone, he loses his footing on the edge of the sidewalk and briefly falls into the crosswalk, the video shows.
“Good, serves you right. Why would you do that?” a group member sneers his way.
Kaye gets up and starts tussling with several people at once before shoving a woman in a black sleeveless shirt to the ground. Several disapproving cries of “ohh!” go up from the crowd.
Someone appears to try to grab at Kaye’s arm when he lets loose with a right hook that lands off camera. He then walks away as several people shout at him.
“You’re a horrible person! Go f–k yourself! Go die!” a voice calls out as Kay flashes a thumbs up without turning around.
Ron Kuby, the attorney representing both the woman who was slugged and the one who was shoved, hailed Kaye’s arrest.
“It’s good that he has been arrested and brought under some form of carceral control. My clients do not want him to serve prison time. They do want him under some form of control. They want him to have anger management. They want him to come out of this as a better person…,” Kuby said Monday.
Kaye, who was initially put on leave from his job as outrage mounted in the wake of the incident, resigned from his Manhattan-based at Moelis & Co. investment bank last week.
After the incident, his neighborhood was targeted by leaflets bearing his image and revealing his name, address and job title accompanied by the text “PUNCHED WOMAN AT PRIDE PARADE.”
He avoided eye contact and skirted reporter questions as detectives walked him out the NYPD’s 78th Precinct in Prospect Heights just before noon Monday, dressed in a blue polo shirt, beige cardigan, gray dress pants and wearing a navy mask over his face.
His lawyer, Danya Perry, doubled down on Monday, saying Kaye had been “terrorized, assaulted, and surrounded by a group of unruly antisemitic protesters.”
“We are hopeful that the District Attorney will fully and fairly consider these facts, along with the surge of antisemitic acts, protests, and attacks that is ravaging our city,” she added.
“We will aggressively fight injustice, and we look forward to a full vindication for our client.”
As to the claims that Kaye was responding to antisemitism, Kuby countered: “No slurs were hurled. They didn’t know he was Jewish. They didn’t know he was a supporter of Israel, he just seemed like a random crazy man.”