This is the moment Boardwalk Empire star Michael Stuhlbarg chases a homeless man down the street in New York City after being assaulted.
Stuhlbarg, 55, was approached apparently at random by the assailant in an upscale neighborhood near Central Park on Sunday night, police told DailyMail.com.
He was walking near 90th and East Drive on the Upper East Side around 7:45 p.m. when Xavier Israel, 27, threw a rock at his head, hitting him in the back of the head.
Stuhlbarg suffered “minor injuries” and ran after Israel to the Russian consulate on East 91st Street, where police officers stationed outside intercepted him.
The chase was caught on camera at a local business in dramatic surveillance footage obtained by DailyMail.com.
The chase was caught on camera at a local business in dramatic surveillance footage obtained by DailyMail.com.
Stuhlbarg, 55, was approached seemingly at random by a homeless man on the Upper East Side on Sunday night.
The actor was walking near East 90th and East Drive around 7:45 p.m. when Xavier Israel, 27, hit him in the back of the head with a rock. (Pictured: photo from Israel’s reservation last night)
The images show Israel, dressed in what appears to be ripped pale blue jeans, a short T-shirt and a white shirt over his face and head, standing in a corner.
He walks back and forth along the sidewalk near a crosswalk, holding a small makeshift bag in his fist.
In a second clip, Israel can be seen running down the sidewalk under a scaffold wearing the same suit.
Seconds later, a man dressed in a t-shirt and black pants runs down the road after him, and they are both out of reach in a matter of seconds.
The actor was offered medical attention at the scene, but he refused treatment, the NYPD said. Israel, who is homeless, was detained and charged with assault.
Pictured: Israel running towards the Russian consulate where he was detained on Sunday night.
In the photo: Stuhlbarg chasing his attacker down the street after he hit him with a rock.
He had previously been arrested for two violent assaults and a robbery in January 2022, police confirmed.
In one incident that month, he knocked a 59-year-old good Samaritan to the ground and assaulted him after the man tried to offer him a coat in frigid temperatures.
Israel was also arrested for attacking another person who offered him help – this time a 49-year-old woman – and for allegedly beating two 18-year-olds in Central Park.
All of the attacks took place in January 2022 and Israel has no further criminal records before or after this month, police told DailyMail.com.
Seconds later, a man dressed in a t-shirt and black pants runs down the road after him, and they are both out of reach in a matter of seconds.
The actor was offered medical attention at the scene, but refused treatment, the NYPD said. Israel, who is homeless, was detained and charged with assault.
Pictured: Xavier Israel booked for previous assault in Manhattan in January 2022
Israel wore a coronavirus mask to conceal his identity when he appeared in court over the January attacks.
Pictured: Israel is arraigned in Manhattan Criminal Court on assault and robbery charges for punching and taunting a good Samaritan who tried to give him a coat in January 2022.
Surveillance footage of Israel beating a man who offered him his coat in freezing weather in January 2022.
The first incident, in which Israel attacked the man who offered him a coat, was captured on surveillance footage.
The video shows the victim trying to help Israel, who was lying on the sidewalk at 476 5th Avenue around 8 p.m. on a particularly cold night.
The victim gently places a jacket he was wearing over Israel before the homeless man jumps out and pushes him to the ground.
Israel grabbed the man’s wallet from his back pants pocket while he was on the ground before fleeing the scene.
The victim attempts to retrieve his wallet before Israel punches him and throws him to the ground.
When Israel was arrested shortly after at West 41st Street and 5th Avenue, officers found nearly $1,500 in cash stuffed in his pants.
Pictured: Hope Davis as Gina Baxter and Michael Stuhlbarg as Jimmy Baxter in Your Honor
Pictured: David Gordon Green (left) as Brad and Michael Stuhlbarg (right) as Jake in Bones And All.
Pictured: Stuhlbarg poses for a portrait to promote the film ‘Shirley’ at the Music Lodge during the Sundance Film Festival on Sunday, January 26, 2020 in Park City, Utah.
Stuhlbarg was attacked in the exclusive east side neighborhood of New York’s Central Park.
Israel’s latest victim, Stuhlbarg, rose to fame playing troubled college professor Larry Gopnik in the 2009 black comedy A Serious Man.
Since then, the California-born actor has played George Yeaman in Lincoln, Lew Wasserman in Hitchcock and Andy Hertzfeld in Steve Jobs.
He is perhaps best known for playing Arnold Rothstein on HBO’s Boardwalk Empire.
Stuhlbarg has been recognized with several awards, including two Screen Actors Guild Awards, along with nominations for two Primetime Emmy Awards, a Tony Award, and a Golden Globe Award.