Shocking footage shows a man being stripped naked and beaten by a baying mob in a 'targeted attack' after he stepped off a bus.
The victim was slashed in the torso, head, and hand in the attack but despite the ferocity of the attack in Manhattan he escaped serious injury.
Police sources told the New York Post the victim has 'an extensive criminal history' and is linked to the notorious Mac Baller Brims gang - once dubbed one of the most dangerous in the Big Apple.
The Post reports the 26-year-old man has 43 arrests on his record — 17 of them for serious offences — and served a three-year sentence at correction facility for robbery after being released in 2017.
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