Disturbing new video footage captures the moment former Gov. David Paterson and his stepson were beaten, allegedly by two city housing authority workers and a rowdy brat pack on an Upper East Side sidewalk.
Guardian Angels founder Curtis Sliwa said on X that his 20-year-old son Anthony — Paterson’s stepson — is still licking his wounds from the brutal beatdown after an Oct. 4 scuffle with the cowardly mob.
“He is still recovering as he was violently beaten to the ground, while standing his ground with Governor Paterson who is recovering as well,” the elder Sliwa wrote on the post.
“I read that two of the attackers, both aged 30 and 45, took it up on themselves to ATTACK Anthony and Gov. Paterson as the other teens were trash talking, before kicking Anthony on the ground and punching Paterson,” he wrote. “These adults escalated the violence and now are trying to claim they are innocent?”
The beef started when Anthony Sliwa chastised a group of youngsters who were climbing on a fire escape — with the brats returning and confronting him and his stepdad.
The footage, seemingly shot through a McDonald’s window, shows about a half dozen assailants kicking and punching Anthony Sliwa while he is on the ground as Paterson, 70, tries to pull them away.
Paterson, who is legally blind, has said he was slugged by one youngster and punched him back.
“I threw him into the window of McDonald’s [and] I hit him again,” the pol said. “The adults escalated the situation. The adults can rot in hell as far as I’m concerned.”
On Monday, cops busted Travor Nurse, 40, and 34-year-old Diamond Minter — both employees of the New York City Housing Authority — and charged them with second-degree assault in the cowardly attack.
Three youngsters, 12 and 13 years old, turned themselves in to police and were charged, while a third boy who surrendered was released without charges after cops determined he didn’t take part.
Paterson served as governor from 2008 to 2010 and is married to Mary Paterson, Curtis Sliwa’s ex-wife.
