A man caught on camera savagely beating a 60-year-old woman with her own cane in a Harlem subway station was let go by police officers who responded to the call.

Laurell Reynolds was still hospitalized on Tuesday after the suspect, identified by police as 43-year-old Norton Blake, hit her more than 50 times with the wooden cane, which broke during the beating.

Reynolds told The New York Post that the cops spoke with her and Blake and then told her that because he’d told a different story, they’d have to arrest her, too, if they took him into custody.

Sources told the Post that an internal affairs investigation has been launched into the police response to the situation.

A transit worker — the same one who filmed the attack — called the Rail Control Center, which contacted 911, Richard Davey, president of the New York Transit Authority, told the Post. Sources said that the responding officers did see the video, but it’s not clear if they saw it before or after cutting Blake, an ex-convict, loose.

This is a very disturbing video that happened at the NYC MTA. Notice how no one helped this woman but took time out to video the assault. Has Society been desensitized to assist?🤔#rideatyourownrisk #nycmta #mta #mtainfo ⁦@GovKathyHochul⁩ ⁦⁦@NYDailyNews⁩ ⁦#nys pic.twitter.com/hJH1LVshoe

— Jonathan Eli (@EJonatha4766004) September 3, 2023

The video shows Blake first swing an umbrella at Reynolds and then take away her cane when she tried to defend herself, as CrimeOnline previously reported. He pummeled her for two minutes.

No one intervened to stop the attack, and Daley said the transit worker did the right thing by recording the assault and contacting authorities.

Both Reynolds and her daughter, Lashanne Reece, were concerned that no one helped.

“That man could’ve killed my mother … You all did nothing. I have a problem with that,” Reece said.

A witness told police that the incident began with an altercation on the station steps. Reynolds told the Post that she was going up the stairs with her walker as Blake was coming down.

“I was trying to get my walker up the steps, and this man was coming down and he was like, ‘Move b****, get out of the way,’” she recalled.

Police are again looking for Blake and say they expect him to be arrested soon.

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