The New York man seen in a viral video snatching up a young woman on a subway train against her will, and later taking a beating for it, is speaking out about what he says the video doesn’t show.
Sonny Alloway says he’s no sexual predator, he was simply acting as a good Samaritan. After being physically attacked on the street over the “misleading” clip, the father of five is now contemplating leaving his home.
“I mean, listen: Honestly, I’m at a crossroad in my mind where I’m like, ‘Do I even want to continue to be here in the Bronx?’ ” Alloway said in an interview with The New York Daily News.
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Alloway, 48, who lives alone on the first floor of a house in the borough, insists he’s the victim of a misunderstanding.
“I mean, let’s really think about that: I’m going to carry her from the train station over here, kicking and screaming, and no one is going to notice that?” he asked. “That’s usually what happens in the world. You just go with the video and you take it for what it is.”
Alloway claims the unidentified teen in the clip is a drug addict and he was trying to rescue her from an abusive boyfriend. The clip shows her screaming as he carries her off a stopped train in the Bronx.
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“So I’m sitting there now,” he recounts. “I’m confused. I’m like ‘What the hell is going on?’ Why is this girl screaming ‘Help! Help! Help!’ when she just said she wanted to get off of this train?
“So I just let it go.”
Since the clip appeared online, Alloway has been attacked by random folks on the street on three separate occasions.
Police arrested him hours after the incident on the train and he was initially charged with unlawful imprisonment, but was released to allow prosecutors more time in building a case.
In the meantime, Alloway is considering a return to New York’s Staten Island borough because folks there are all “about each other.”