1010 WINS reporter Kelly Dillon is the latest woman to take to TikTok to reveal she was the victim of a random attack on New York City streets.
“They grabbed my hair so tightly and literally body slammed me onto the pavement,” Dillon, a 20-year news veteran and traffic reporter, says in the video.
She decries the assault she endured in Manhattan last week as just the latest in a growing trend of violence targeting women in the city.
“I want to warn females about the dangers in the streets of New York City right now,” said Dillon in a 22-minute video she posted to TikTok on Saturday.
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“I want to warn females about the dangers in the streets of New York City right now,” said Dillon in a 22-minute video she posted to TikTok on Saturday.
“I want to warn females about the dangers in the streets of New York City right now,” said Dillon in a 22-minute video she posted to TikTok Saturday. “There are many crimes being committed, random acts, random attacks on females on the streets. It’s not going away and it’s not getting any better and it’s getting much, much worse.”
The 40-year-old Dillon was on King St. near the radio broadcaster’s Hudson St. headquarters in Hudson Square just after midnight Wednesday when she felt a man grab her hair and throw her to the pavement, she said on TikTok.
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Skiboky Stora, right, is alleged to have punched Halley Kate Mcgookin as she walked near W. 16th St. and Seventh Ave.
Dillon struck her head and elbow — where she said her bone was visible through the wound — in the fall. Paramedics took the reporter to the Lenox Hill Healthplex for treatment.
Her attacker fled west towards Hudson St. in what Dillon called a shameless display of cowardice.
“He ran off, of course, like a coward,” Dillon said on TikTok.
Police confirmed a woman was thrown by her hair into a concrete planter at that time and location.
TikTok users sounded the alarm on the alarming trend earlier this year as multiple women took to the social media platform to share stories of being attacked without provocation on New York City streets.
Among the victims was comedian Sarah Suzuki Harvard, who spoke to the Daliy News in March after she complained on TikTok after a man hit her in the back of her head on Delancey St. and then fled off into Lower Manhattan.
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Sarah Suzuki Harvard was attacked on Delancey St. when she was on her way to host a show at a Lower East Side venue on March 19.
Two men were charged in later that month for separate assaults shortly after victims posted TikTok videos saying strange men attacked them.
Dillon blamed both the NYPD and media for not paying enough attention to the violence that’s left women battered and fearful.
“The media and the police are definitely downplaying and it is a huge, huge problem,” Dillon said on TikTok. “I’m going to use my platform for good to expose this further.”
With Rocco Parascandola
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