A Guardian Angel member has resigned from the volunteer group after he was captured on video getting into a scuffle with two subway passengers, one of whom he tried to “karate kick,” according to the group’s founder and video posted to Twitter.
The red-beret-wearing Angels member could be seen on a Q train in Midtown Thursday having some angry words with a group of passengers who had just attended a protest — including Patrick Bobilin, a candidate for the state assembly’s 76th District — before approaching them and appearing to throw a kick at them.
After Bobilin posted the video on Twitter, Angels head Curtis Sliwa told that the member had “crossed the line” and offered his resignation soon after the incident.
Bobilin, who’s planning a second bid for the assembly’s 76th District next year after losing in November, told that the incident happened as he was headed home from a Stonewall Inn protest Thursday evening.
He said the Guardian Angels were at the demonstration, though not participating, when he ran into a pair of members on the Q train in Midtown.
Bobilin said he has no love lost for the Angels. He claims they have “stalked” the block where he lives and “harassed” him and his neighbors over their efforts to abolish the police and competing plans to address the homeless crisis on the Upper East Side.
