NYPD arrested a woman for punching and beating a 98-year-old Brooklyn man. The woman who was arrested was a campaign worker for Democratic New York State committee member Anthony Beckford. Cops say that Tashara Abel, 27, had been putting Beckford’s reelection materials into mailboxes in the lobby of a Brooklyn building at Maple Street and Rogers Avenue in Prospect Lefferts Gardens when the nonagenarian walked in around 4 p.m. on Thursday, June 4.

Cops and neighbors of the man said that the two began arguing over handouts for the candidate when Abel allegedly punched the elderly man in the neck and hit him with a broomstick and a metal chair over his head and body. The man was treated for head injuries but refused to go to the hospital.

Abel left after the alleged attack but was captured on surveillance footage leaving the building. She was subsequently arrested on Friday, June 5.

For her part, Abel claims she did not hit the victim; rather, she says he pushed her first. She described entering the building lobby, which she claims was listed on her paperwork. Abel says she was accosted by the 98-year-old man after explaining to him that she was just doing her job. She then claims the man demanded she leave, after which she said he spit on her and pushed her. In reporting done by the New York Post.

“So I said, ‘Don’t do that,’” she recalled. “That’s when he went for the door and pushed the door, and everything behind the door fell — the chair, sticks, everything.”

The 27-year-old then claims she kicked the chair away and moved the stick holding the door open.

Abel, who is a mother of two, was charged with three counts of assault, burglary, and criminal possession of a weapon, cops said. She was freed on supervised release, per the New York Post. 

The victim’s neighbors described him as a well-liked person. “A really cool person, someone who makes you laugh, comes around to say hi, always with a joke, so to hear that someone beat him because he doesn’t want anything on this property, it’s sad,” one told NBC 4. “He really didn’t deserve that.”