The woman randomly struck with a rock on a Chelsea street last week claims she waved down cops after the sudden broad-daylight attack — but they did nothing to help.
The 67-year-old victim — an artist and dancer who was reached by phone Tuesday and did not want to be identified by name — said police officers didn’t try to catch the unhinged stranger who attacked her, though he was still in sight.
“I flagged the police and I pointed him out to the police and he wasn’t even halfway down the block and they didn’t go after him,” she told The Post.
“It doesn’t make sense to me,” she added. “Don’t police get training? Aren’t they trained? I don’t know why they didn’t nab him right then and there.”
The woman said she’s still “scared” after the July 6 attack at Seventh Avenue and West 14th Street, which left her with minor injuries.
But she said she doesn’t think her assailant was specifically out to get her — noting he likely suffers from some sort of mental health issues.
“I’m not taking it personally,” she said. “He’s a person out there who needs help and I was in the wrong place at the wrong time.
“He didn’t appear to me to be super crazy or anything,” the woman added. “Maybe he was mentally unstable and not on his meds or something.”
The disheveled suspect approached the woman round 9 a.m. and motioned as if he was about to hit her, prompting her to duck — but despite her quick reflexes, she couldn’t escape his blow completely, she said.
“I felt this clunk on the back of my head,” she recalled.
“After he got me in the head, he mumbled something incoherent,” she added. “I was shocked and I was a little dizzy.”
Still, she said she was glad that her instincts kicked in.
“If I hadn’t ducked, he would have hit me in the face,” she said. “He caught me when I ducked.”
She went to a local hospital to get checked out — but said she’s lucky she “wasn’t hurt very badly.”
The woman blames the assailant’s mental state for the unprovoked attack — and the city for failing to help him.
“Maybe he has some anger issues but he definitely has mental health issues,” she said.
“I feel bad for people like that who are on the street with problems and don’t get help. We don’t have helpers in this city for people with mental health issues because police aren’t really the solution.”
She said the detective on her case explained that the cops she tried to flag down for help were “new on the job.”
The NYPD didn’t immediately return a request for comment Wednesday about her claims that cops didn’t help following the incident.
The department on Tuesday released surveillance footage of the suspect — described as having a medium build and standing about 6 feet 2 — in hopes of identifying him.
He was last seen wearing a loose V-neck green shirt, dark baggy pants and sporting a bushy beard and long dark hair.
Meanwhile, the victim said she is “recovering.”
“I’m strong and I have a hard head,” she said. “I’m an artist and a dancer so I have pretty good reflexes.”
