{"id":214474,"date":"2020-10-03T06:26:43","date_gmt":"2020-10-03T06:26:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=214474"},"modified":"2020-10-05T07:02:41","modified_gmt":"2020-10-05T07:02:41","slug":"nypd-releases-photo-of-man-accused-of-punching-rick-moranis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=214474","title":{"rendered":"NYPD releases photo of man accused of punching Rick Moranis"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Natalie Musumeci \u2013 New York Post Oct 2, 2020<\/strong><\/h1>\n<div align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/players.brightcove.net\/4137224153001\/6aIMRO3kiI_default\/index.html?videoId=6196978690001\" width=\"618\" height=\"348\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n&#8212;<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The NYPD released a close-up surveillance image Friday of the man wanted for <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2020\/10\/02\/man-67-punched-in-random-upper-west-side-attack\/\">randomly attacking actor Rick Moranis<\/a> on the Upper West Side.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The unidentified suspect pictured in the photo, which was taken from inside a city subway station, is seen wearing a black \u201cI \u2764 NY\u201d sweatshirt with the hood on, a backpack, and a black face mask covering his mouth.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Moranis, 67, was walking south on Central Park West near West 70th Street \u2014 steps from his apartment building \u2014 around 7:30 a.m. Thursday when a thug suddenly clocked him in the head, knocking him to the ground, police said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The unprovoked attack was also caught on surveillance video, previously released by police. In it, the suspect can be seen slugging Moranis before calmly walking off.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">A rep for Moranis confirmed to The Post Friday that the largely reclusive \u201cHoney I Shrunk the Kids\u201d and \u201cGhostbusters\u201d star was the victim of the assault.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">\u201cRick Moranis was assaulted on the Upper West Side yesterday. He is fine but grateful for everyone\u2019s thoughts and well wishes,\u201d Troy Bailey of Bailey Brand Management said in an emailed statement.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2020\/10\/02\/nypd-releases-photo-of-man-accused-of-punching-rick-moranis\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did CNN omit to include footage of the attack because the suspect was black and the random, unprovoked assault was part of a rising trend of similar attacks? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":214477,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-214474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-Current_Affairs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=214474"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":214478,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214474\/revisions\/214478"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/214477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=214474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=214474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=214474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}