A 75-year-old grandmother was pummeled when she asked two women to pick up their dogs’ poop in a brutal Brooklyn attack earlier this week – and the beatdown only ended when a Navy vet neighbor stepped in, disturbing video shows.
Linda Scott was repeatedly punched in the face and knocked onto her front lawn by one of the dog-walkers when the brawl unfolded just after 9 a.m. Monday on President Street near Troy Avenue in Crown Heights, according to Ring camera footage obtained by The Post.
Even when Scott was on the ground, the pig-tailed fiend punched and stomped on her head, the unsettling clip shows.
The neighbor, who only identified himself as Mr. Barnett, 37, said he’d just parked his car after a morning trip to the gym when he noticed a “commotion” in front of the senior’s home.
“It seemed like a dispute about the dog poop or whatever….a shouting match back and forth,” Barnett, now a train conductor, said Friday. “[When] the young lady in the red came around the corner….the way she approached Miss Linda just let me know that she was about to do something to her.”
“I saw the gate was coming up, and then the young lady came up and put her hands [on the victim] and started assaulting her, that’s when I got out [of] the car.”
He pulled the ruthless attacker off the senior and then scrambled to close the gate as the two dogs scurried around.
“The victim’s son showed up and she told him, ‘She hit me,’” the good Samaritan said. “And that’s when it escalated again.”
“She was screaming, like it was an agonizing scream like she was in pain, but I wasn’t paying too much attention to it,” Barnett added. “I was just trying to contain the environment and get the people off of her property.”
Scott was taken to One Brooklyn Health-Interfaith Medical Center, where she was listed in stable condition.
Barnett described the victim as a “staple in the community” who had “been here for years.”
He said he hopes the attacker “grows up” and does “the right thing” by turning herself in.
“[This] could have easily been a conversation,” he said. “It’s not looking good for the next generation coming up. Like, that’s not a great example.”
But he shied away from calling himself a hero.
“If you count that as being a hero, then I guess my naval experience, my law enforcement experience means nothing,” Barnett said. “It’s just doing the right thing, looking out for the neighbor – and not even just the neighbor but looking out for another human being.”
Just before the beatdown, one of the women accused the senior of throwing ammonia on her dog, the clip shows.
Scott admitted to pouring ammonia on a vacant lot next to her home, which is often used by dog owners who don’t clean up their pets’ mess, News 12 reported.
But her son, Matthew Scott, told the network his mom only wanted to keep the smell away and never used the cleaning fluid “as a weapon.”
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“The young lady had no business beating me like that,” Scott told the station. “No business beating me or any other older person like that. Anybody. Period.”
The assailant was still on the loose Friday, cops said.
