THAT COP'S A BEAST!
An off-duty Brooklyn cop punched and shoved a 71-year-old woman because he didn’t want her riding in their building’s elevator with her dog, according to police sources.
“I think if I didn’t run away, he would kill me,” Janet Goldschmidt told The Post on Monday, the day after Officer Vladimir Radionov, 46, was charged with seconddegree assault for the alleged attack. “He was so angry.”
Goldschmidt said she had just returned from a walk with her ninepound Yorkshire terrier, Alvick, at around 8:25 a.m. when she stepped into the main elevator of her Brighton Beach building.
Pets are allowed only in the building’s service elevator, but when it didn’t show up for 15 minutes, Goldschmidt decided to use the main one instead, authorities said.
Radionov became enraged by her dog as he entered the elevator, police and Goldschmidt said.
“Take your motherf--king dog out of the elevator. I don’t want to go up with your f--king dirty dog,” Radionov allegedly snarled at her in Russian.
The 5-foot-tall woman said she asked if she could ride up to her floor alone and then send the car right back down.
“He said no and started punching me,” Goldschmidt said. “I throw a cup of coffee, thinking this is going to stop him, but it doesn’t. He punches me in the back. He grabs me and pulls me out like I am a child.”
Video shows Radionov dragging her out of the elevator, then pushing her when she tries to get back in, sources said.
She injured her tailbone and the back of her head.
“I am so surprised. He is a police officer,’’ Goldschmidt said. “Police officers are supposed to keep us safe. Instead, he was acting like a criminal.’’
Radionov was freed on $5,000 bail, although an order of protection was issued against him, meaning he isn’t allowed to return to his building.
Radionov’s wife insisted he would never punch anyone. “He is not violent,” Angelina Radionov said.