TikTok exec randomly slashed by maniacal stranger on subway sues MTA for systemic negligence

A TikTok exec randomly slashed in the face by a maniacal stranger who had allegedly already been banned from the transit system said the MTA’s “systemic negligence” is just as responsible for his injuries as the madman.Gideon Moncrieffe struggles with nightmares, depression and flashbacks from the May 10, 2023 incident, which occurred just weeks after Daniel Penny’s subway chokehold death of out-of-control straphanger Jordan Neely.Moncrieffe was engaged to the “love of his life” at the time and working as head of global event production for the social media giant when he saw Sean Lewis on the southbound C train in Brooklyn squabbling with an older, drunken rider, and tried to squash the beef, he said in a new lawsuit filed against the MTA.“I said look, somebody was killed on the train two weeks ago, they were choked out because someone proceeded to be aggressive,” Moncrieffe told The Post after the attack, referring to the Penny case.

Lewis –who has a history of violence including an arrest a month before their encounter in which he allegedly choked his girlfriend and threatened her with a knife — chillingly responded, “Thank you,” and then sliced him with a sharp object from his forehead to his chin.The horrific assault left Moncrieffe with an 8-inch gash on his face that required 100 stitches to close, according to his Manhattan Supreme Court lawsuit.

It wasn’t immediately clear when and why Lewis was banned from the transit system, but his extensive rap sheet includes nine arrests between 2016 and 2021, including assault and strangulation charges in 2023, sources previously told The Post.In January 2023, he was accused of shoving his girlfriend in a window.

In August 2022, attacked an employee at a homeless shelter, later agreeing to a plea deal which saw him convicted of disorderly conduct.The Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s alleged negligence was “multifaceted” and made the terrifying attack even worse, Moncrieffe s...