Disturbing moment a husband and wife are brutally attacked by ‘a group of looters who tried to destroy store below their apartment in Upstate New York'

A New York woman and her husband have been attacked by a group of suspected looters damaging a store that they lived above.

Peaceful protests over the death of George Floyd turned volatile over the weekend as widespread looting in Upstate New York on Saturday. 

In Rochester, Madison Mavity and her husband, Bret Mavity, were caught in the crosshairs when at least six men began damaging the business under their apartment.

Cell phone footage from the incident shows a group of men breaking the front windows of Rochester Fire Equipment Company and Kim Dao Repairs when Madison, 24, came outside.

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Madison Mavity, 24, (right) was attacked by a group of suspected looters in Rochester, New York, on Saturday

Madison tells the group of men to stop destroying the property, but this appears to escalate the situation. 

The men then turn on her, including one man who swings what appears to be a piece of plywood at her head. 

'I was definitely there interrupting something they wanted to do,' Madison told WHAM.

'I jumped in and said, "Get out of here, get the f*** out of my house," and they came at me.'

The men begin to kick, punch and push the woman around as bystanders watch on.

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The group of men were reportedly trying to loot a jewelry store under The Mavity's apartment before Madison (right) came outside 

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Cell phone footage shows the men shove, punch and kick Madison while bystanders watch on

One man even launches a metal ladder at Madison and others use boards to hit Madison.

During the scuffle, Bret rushes outside to break up the altercation.

'Get away from my wife!' Bret screams, before he's overpowered and attacked as well. 

The footage ends with the group of looters running away from the scene. They were reportedly there to steal jewelry from one of the stores. 

Afterwards, Madison revealed that she had a 'slight concussion.'

'My ears were ringing for a long time and have huge bruise on the side of me,' she added.  

Bret was also injured during the alteration and plans on going to the hospital.

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Bret Mavity (pictured), Madison's husband, later comes outside in an attempt to protect his wife

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Bret (left) suffered a hand injury as a result of the altercation on Saturday and planned on visiting a hospital 

'My husband’s hand is crazy hurt. We need to go to the hospital and get that checked out,' Madison said.  

The couple told Spectrum News that they called 911 and 'and no one ever came. We get they were busy but that was just crazy.'

Madison said that she decided to confront the group of men in an effort to help Kim Dao, owner of Kim Dao's Repairs, downstairs.

Madison has lived above the store for four years and even helped the owners of the jewelry store board up their windows after it was previously ransacked.  

'They were broken into and vandalized. We were helping fix their window when more people came and re-broke everything. I was just trying to get them away,' said Madison.

She recalled the altercation starting when a man in an orange hoodie stepped towards her.

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Madison (pictured), speaking with Spectrum News, said: 'They were broken into and vandalized. We were helping fix their window when more people came and re-broke everything. I was just trying to get them away'

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Madison: 'I don’t want to bring negative connotation to what the Black Lives Matter movement is trying to say because I don’t think that they were a part of it'

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Although the couple called 911,  the police in Rochester apparently never showed up to the scene

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Pictured: three men tower over Madison as they kick her and swing a piece of wood at her  

'The one kid in the orange hoodie kind of just came at me. My husband tried to defend me but [an attacker] grabbed my shirt and pulled me around and down,' she said. 

'Meanwhile, my husband was trying to get them off me and eventually he did get me up and back inside.' 

Madison's mother, Shelly Gonzalez, was alarmed when she saw the video footage.

'I was horrified when I saw the video,' Shelly told Democrat & Chronicle. 

Shelly said her daughter went downstairs because she thought the owners had returned, but found the group of men instead. 

'She was pissed. She was really angry and frustrated,' said Shelly.  

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Shelly Gonzalez: 'They're terrified because they don't feel safe going back to their home'

The couple has since left their apartment after witnessing looters with gas cans outside the building.  

'They're terrified because they don't feel safe going back to their home,' said Shelly. 

Still, Shelly is extremely proud of her daughter for standing her ground.

'I'm so proud that she came out and on seeing what she saw, she could have run back upstairs. Instead, she stood her ground,' Shelly said. 'I think my daughter is a hero.'

Madison added that the incident didn't affect her view of the Black Lives Matter movement. 

'This is just senseless violence. I think we have to keep that in mind,' she said.

'I don’t want to bring negative connotation to what the Black Lives Matter movement is trying to say because I don’t think that they were a part of it.'