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Woman chases and beats man who groped her in subway station

New York, NY — Newly released video shows a woman chasing and hitting an alleged groper through a New York subway station.

Chantal Castanon is the woman you seen in the video chasing a man through the subway station at 42nd Street and Grand Central Terminal.

"It just so happened so fast. When I actually saw it I was like wow, I can't even believe I actually did that. I didn't even think about it," Castanon told WCBS.

She says what the man did to her moments before sent her into a fury. She was so angry, she says she had to fight back. "I felt the rage coming from my stomach like I was that like what did he just do to me?  Did he really just touch me like that? And didn't even care, just like, walked off like it was nothing."

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Castanon was headed home for the day after work on Aug. 31 around 2 p.m.

She was walking down the stairs to catch the train when the man walking up the stairs grabbed her behind. "Really quickly it happened but he's just like grabbed my whole buttocks," said Castanon.

The surveillance video captured her reaction, running after the man, hitting him several times. "I was just like 'You know what? You're not touching me like that and getting away with it.'"

The man kept apologizing but it did nothing to quell her anger. "He was just like, 'I'm sorry' and 'I'm sorry' and for every sorry I just kept hitting him, he just kept outraging me like how could you apologize to me after something you just did?" said Castanon.

Eventually the man got away, surely never expecting the reaction he got.

Castanon hopes by telling her story someone will turn him in. "I just want him caught because you don't know who he did it to or potentially do it to and it has to stop."

CNN/WCBS

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