Subject: Guardian Angels seen protecting NYC businesses from looters Wed Jun 10, 2020 1:57 am
A group of volunteers known as the "Guardian Angels" made headlines again this week after a video was posted to YouTube on Sunday, showing its members defending a New York City Footlocker from rioters and looters. The group's founder Curtis Sliwa, 66, had set up with his men outside the front of the store near Broadway and Washington Place around 10 p.m. last Tuesday, The New York Post reported. The video showed the Angels, in their signature jackets and hats, blocking off the entrance and pushing would-be looters away from the door. It also shows one of the rioters smashing what appears to be a cane over a Guardian Angel's head. In addition, a bicycle and bags of garbage were thrown at the group by those who passed by. Sliwa called the confrontation a victory, however, a blow to the head reportedly cost Guardian Angel Aram Sabet the vision in his left eye, after he received a broken nose, broken left sinus, broken eye socket near his left temple and 48 stitches. He also had two chipped teeth and two "wiggly molars." Sabet spoke with Fox News about the ordeal that left him with a life-changing injury on Tuesday evening.