New York rapper arrested after standing up to alleged groper on bus
A camera was rolling when a rapper was briefly arrested after he stood up to an alleged groper on a New York City bus who he said was grabbing a teen girl.
Hip-hop artist Moise Morancy was travelling in Queens on Wednesday when he noticed a drunk man "touching the girl without her permission", he wrote on Facebook.
Morancy intervened and started shouting at the man to stop, the commotion prompting another passenger to get out their phone and start recording.
"So I'm on my way home from the studio finalizing my debut mixtape 'Chronicles of a Ghetto Rose' and I'm sitting at the back of the bus when this drunk guy gets on, saying all types of sexual s***t to this little girl sitting next to me," he wrote on Facebook.
Morancy is seen leaning over a seat, gripping the man he said was creeping on the teen girl.
"If you touch a girl without her permission, this is what I'm gonna do to you," Morancy shouts at the man who appears to have a bloody nose.
"Don't you ever do that s**t again.
"Do you hear me? Hear me?"
The rapper said the man shouted racial abuse at him and began caressing the teen again.
The police were called and boarded the bus where they arrested Morancy and the alleged groper until they could figure out what had happened.
Morancy was eventually released without charge and 36-year-old Pablo Levano was booked for forcible touching, PIX 11 reports.
He told the station a black NYPD officer later came up to shake his hand for what he had done.
"He said 'you're a hero' and shook my hand and said 'I was you 20 years ago', and that touched me," Morancy said.
"And I urge other men to step in to intervene when someone's being sexually assaulted. It's disgusting!"
October 30 - Newsbreak
