MANHATTAN, N.Y. (PIX11) – A terrifying stampede in SoHo was caught on camera, leaving a grandmother hospitalized for her birthday.
Rosalyn Landsman and her husband were knocked to the ground by a half-dozen fleeing suspects and briefly left unconscious. The men were running from police who were confiscating counterfeit goods on Canal Street.
“They said five to six months, my bones will be back to where they were,” Rosalyn said.
The couple was walking along Canal Street Wednesday afternoon when a shocking video showed about a half-dozen suspects running from the police. The couple was knocked to the ground, and Rosalyn was trampled on the sidewalk as the suspects made their getaway.
“My husband crawled over and protected me, and then the police came,” Rosalyn added.
The police were not far behind, having just raided an unlicensed vending camp in SoHo.
“They just pick up their blankets and run like hell. They ran, and we were in the way,” she said.
The grandmother suffered four fractured ribs, a punctured lung, a broken clavicle and needed stitches in her head.