An unidentified man assaulted an apparently inebriated 26-year old woman at the stairwell of the Copper Door in Downtown Santa Ana, early on Sunday morning, May 21, 2017, according to the O.C. Register.
The SAPD released surveillance footage today of the attack, in an attempt to get leads on the suspect. Why they waited this long to release the footage is a very good question. Were they trying to protect the Proof Bar from what is sure to be a damaging hit to their image?
The victim reported the assault to the SAPD at about 3 a.m., shortly after the incident occurred. Yet the police waited until today to release the video footage – and the SAPD did not release a press release via their Nixle service.
The victim walked out of the Proof Bar by herself before she was attacked. The suspect followed her and then attacked her on the stairwell, according to the SAPD.
The man is seen in the surveillance video footage grabbing and groping the woman and then he tries to drag her down the dark stairwell by her hair and clothes.
Somehow the victim was able to fight off the suspect and he took off.
While the victim was not seriously injured we hope she will lawyer up and go after the Proof Bar and the Copper Door for their shoddy security.
You might recall that a young Vietnamese-American woman was stomped to death a few years ago outside the now closed down Crosby Bar in DTSA. And a few years before that a Korean-American man from Irvine was shot to death at a city parking structure in DTSA. Just this month a man was convicted of manslaughter for stabbing a fellow to death at a punk concert in DTSA under the Sarmiento family’s Festival Hall.
Security remains shoddy in DTSA. Party there at your own risk!
Thats not the Proof bar,that’s the stairwell that leads to the Copper Door
We revised the post but she did leave Proof before going down those stairs.
The bigger issue is why did the police wait so long to release the video? Why was this story delayed?
First of all saw the video yesterday on tuesday
2nd the bitch wasnt stomped to death
Exactly my point. You saw the video on Tuesday but the attack happened on Sunday. Why the delay?
As for the young lady who was killed, yes she was stomped to death. And have some respect for the victims of DTSA violence.
Maybe they needed approval to post it? From either the woman/or the business since it is not public property
I agree with that notion but the police sat on this story. At the very least they needed to alert the public right away that a scumbag attacked a lone woman.
So let me get this right,Proof bar is responsible for this attack that was two doors down a whole hour after it closed? The reason SAPD didn’t release this right away is because they caught him that night and the district attorney needed more time to put a case together. And I love how tens of thousands of people have come downtown in the last decade and left unscathed you make it sound like a slaughterhouse. This is a bullsh*t article.