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Terrifying CCTV footage shows a man jumping over a railing and grabbing a young girl as his mother and diner heroes tackle him.
In the video, the four-year-old is sitting with two women on the patio of a pizzeria when the stranger runs up to her and grabs her by the neck.
As one of the women tries to get the girl to safety, the 24-year-old is quickly grabbed by a hero diner, who happens to be a martial arts expert, and places a key on her head while he still has his hands. put on. the woman.
The diner throws him to the ground, one of the women hits him in the face and holds him until the security agents arrive and detain him in a few moments. It was initially thought to have been an attempted kidnapping.
The man, who was left bloody with injuries to his face, had no connection to the girl or her family, according to police in the South African suburb of Johannesburg in Florida.
A witness told the Roodeport Record: “He was walking down the street hitting cars. Then he started running towards the girl.
“It didn’t seem like he was trying to take her, he was really trying to hurt her.
“His eyes were dead.”
In a Facebook post, private investigator Wendy Pascoe claimed the man was involved in an assault before grabbing the girl.
The dramatic incident occurred around 5 p.m. Thursday and the images went viral on social media.
A clip on Twitter has been viewed more than seven million times.
Another clip on social media shows the bloody man yelling at witnesses as he lay handcuffed and barefoot on the floor outside the restaurant.
He screams and seems to speak to himself.
The man appeared in court Friday on charges of assault.
Since then, the eater hero has been named by the South African media as the martial artist and businessman Dishal Sooku.
He was praised on social media, with one person tweeting: “A true hero, in the right place at the right time. So happy you were there at the time to save the girl.”
Lt. Kay Makhubela, a police spokeswoman, told TimesLive: “It is alleged that on Thursday around 5 pm the plaintiff was at the pizzeria in Florida with her four-year-old son when an unknown man arrived and grabbed the boy by the neck while if he wanted to take her away.
“The mother and child screamed and, with the help of the store owner and the community, the suspect was arrested.”
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