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they attacked a sketch-year-old man walking by. this happened in the middle of the day and police want these two guys off the streets. good evening, i m iain page. i m lucy noland. the guy they wailed on wants them off the street and he s talking only to fox 29. dave schratwieser is live at the philadelphia police headquarte headquarters. dave, brave guy. reporter: lucy, no doubt about it. len pell tells us he lived in port richmond for over 30 years and never been the victim of a crime before until now. the two suspects playing in a playground in the moments before the attack. they really wailed it in there for about 30 seconds or so. reporter: 67-year-old len pell says he was simply walking home from neighborhood corner store when out of nowhere he was violently attacked from behind. bang, you know, snuck me and clocked me something, stunned me and just kept hitting me and hitting me and hitting. he suffered fail injuries and had his wallet stolen he was ....
the victim of a crime before. i think it s horrible. 67-year-old len pell has lived in port richmond for over 30 years. he s never been the victim of a crime until now. bang. you know, snuck me and clocked me with something. stunned me and just kept hitting me and hitting me and hitting me. reporter: pell was walking home from neighborhood corner store out thereof nowhere he was violently attacked from behind. he suffered facial injuries and had his wallet stolen. he ended up in the hospital. this was all black and blue. my knows was all black and blue. this changed color the next day. the head was all lumped. reporter: police say it started with two young suspects seen swinging on the swings at the stokely play ground in port richmond. but seconds later, cameras captured them, brutely attacking pell. on the swings like six years old and then they innocent victim passing through like people do they cut through that area and like i said broad daylight. sa ....
this city has adopted a series a policy a hard-line stance against the homeless. some say it s mean. but the business leaders here were screaming that something had to be done. here in waikiki a couple of years ago you would see a lot of homeless around. out here today, you don t really see any. they are really not that visible. city leaders say this is a success. well, there are some homeless advocates who are saying that this at what price are we taking this to be able to accomplish something like this? driven out of waikiki by a wave of new laws, raynell now calls this small corner her home. she has been living on the streets for years. do you want to be out here on the streets? no. no. i want somebody to help us, not judge us because we addicts or criminals. we are human beings. reporter: she is just one of thousands forced into a migrant life after honolulu officials stopped allowing people to sit or lie on sidewalks or sleep overnight in the city s parks. sh ....
area are stopping one another to talk about it. reporter: question and concerns as word spread that seven people who lived or work inside the morris park section of the bronx have been diagnosed with legionnaires disease. right now the exact source is unknown. because we identify this as a cluster, it does not mean that we know what the cause is. reporter: does it scare you? sure it does. reporter: the patients ranging in ages for 45 to 75, all with previous underlying medical conditions and the first case was reported last month on september 21st, and mayor bill de blasio says this is not linked to the deadly outbreak this summer. it was traced to legionnaires bacteria in the cooling tour of the opera house in the bronx and the city has since implemented new cooling tower regulations. 35 in this area were tested over the weekend. cleaned recently, and it could be something different. reporter: exposure can come from the mist of contaminated showers, fauce ....
and across the country. president obama has asked the philadelphia police commissioner, charles ramsey to head the task force on 21st century policing to seek ways to build trust between police and minorities communities while at the same time reducing crime. so much to talk about, i think i want to start by can asking thir maybe interject. police need to be able to tell their families they will come home at night safe. they need to protect themselves, right? at the same time citizens need to feel they are not going to be wrongfully abused or killed by police. two very simple suggestions here, how do you balance that? it s hard to reconcile, the 180-degree difference of point of view between the black community and the white community in the united states. there s a variation in the historic problem in the united states it s been going on for centuries. the one thing i think we know is that these cameras are not the solution. i mean that s what the case in new york ....