Around 3:00 a.m. on November 7, 2026 (early morning of that Saturday), in Manhattan’s Murray Hill neighborhood on/near 2nd Avenue, Asfak Mahmud (ID #10087) and Mohammed S. Ahmed (ID #22523) stopped a nurse walking her dog. This is the NYPD’s 17th Precinct.

“The officers said she was in the street. She said she had the walk signal. One of them grabbed her arm, and you can hear her telling him he was hurting her. Bystanders started filming, called 911, and demanded a supervisor. Even with people asking them directly, the officers never clearly said what law she’d broken. She kept her dog.”

People are speculating that the issue has to do with Sharia law and dislike of dogs.

However, based on the fact that the youngish, attractive woman was out alone in the wee hours of the night, the officer tried to remove the dog and simultaneously painfully grabbed the woman’s hand (illegally), and he had a second officer there keeping watch, I think he meant to arrest and possibly sexually assault her. He only stopped when a bystander got involved. You can see the whole video on X at the second link.