A 17 year old teen shot a video that has circulated around the internet. Was the depicted video real or a hoax? The police department is trying to answer that question.
The young woman who shot the video, Kadejra Holmes, 17, of Harlem, says the assault was real, according to her lawyer, Earl Ward, who was speaking to reporters on her behalf.
Mr. Ward said that Ms. Holmes, who was enrolled in a filmmaking program in Harlem, had not spoken to the police yesterday but was expected to soon.
Mr. Ward said that his client was on her way home from a party with two friends when she saw a group of girls harassing a man who had been lying down on the A train. Ms. Holmes decided on the “spur of the moment” to record the event, Mr. Ward said. “She was a passenger, she saw something happen on the train, and she had her camera available,” Mr. Ward said. “If you are a passenger on a subway train and somebody is being assaulted, you have no obligation to help. She did not aid the individuals involved in the assaulting behavior. She had no culpability.”
She is 17 years old, but did she not think to send the video to the police?
Friday, December 7, 2007
What People Won't Post Online
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According to the New York Post, Kadjera Holmes (the 17-year-old girl who shot the video) is not as innocent as she claims—the Post reports: "...she had been arrested on Sept. 3 along with an underage pal for assaulting a 24-year-old woman aboard the J train between the Lorimer Street and Essex Street stops. Holmes is due back in court on Dec. 11 for that incident."
I'm having a hard time believing she didn't know the girls who committed the attack.
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