New York mayoral candidate Curtis Pliva rescues passers-by from a crazy man in the Bronx

New York City mayoral candidate Curtis Pliva stepped in to stop a mentally disturbed man from attacking passers-by on a street in the Bronx. At one point in the conflict, weapons even appeared, says New York Post.

Plum is the founder of the Guardian Angels, an organization that patrols the streets of New York, so he knows how to deal with situations like this. Video footage shows a mayoral candidate trying to calm down a man who was yelling at passers-by around 12:30 pm on July 21 at the corner of Fordham Road and Webster Avenue.

“Relax, relax,” Plum said to the man, who continued his indistinct tirade addressed to the people passing by. The man shouted phrases such as "You lie" and "You never fed me," pointing his finger and trying to get closer to people on the street.

He then targeted the mother and child by stepping towards her and accusing her of "trying to intervene." Plum, trying to calm the man, stood between them, but in the end the woman had to calm down too.

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“Stay away from me,” the woman's voice can be heard in the video. Then the argument escalated and she pulled out the knife. In response, Plum several times asked her to remove the weapon.

“Get this man out of here, please,” she asked.

The video ends with Plum reaching out to stop the madman who kept shouting racial slurs at the woman.

“I was the only one who stood between him and the crowd,” Sliva later told reporters. He stressed that this man was "dangerous to himself and, obviously, to others, and there is no one in New York to call to get this man off the street."

There was no one to deal with him

Pliva, 67, was nearby at a press conference and saw a man rush into the crowd, including several people who were waiting for the bus.

“The security officer took him out of Walgreens and he just started attacking people in the crowd,” Sliva explained. "He was just unbalanced, like a neutron bomb."

“I went up to him and squeezed myself between him and the crowd. He knew who I was, but it was still difficult for me to calm him down, ”the politician admitted. Pliva said that he ultimately took the man away from the crowd and walked him down the road to a quieter area.

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“Unfortunately, this is becoming more common and more common,” he said of incidents with people in need of mental health care.

“Neither the ambulance nor the police came,” he said. "There was no one besides me to deal with him."

The New York police said that apparently no calls were made to the emergency services regarding the incident.