The dramatic moment that onlookers tackled and detained a man who kicked a stranger's Pomeranian dog in the head has been caught on video.

Josh Kuipers was walking Meeka down Bowery Street on Manhattan's Lower East Side on Thursday when he said a stranger kicked the seven-pound dog in the head 'like a football'.

Meeka, who just turned seven years old this week, was whimpering and crying, bleeding from her mouth and had difficulty walking afterwards, he said.

According to witnesses at the scene, a crowd gathered and a number of passersby immediately rushed after the perpetrator.

Josh Kuipers was walking Meeka down Bowery Street on Manhattan's Lower East Side on Thursday when he said a stranger kicked the seven-pound dog in the head

Suspect Jerrod Ford (left) was detained by onlookers after allegedly kicking Meeka (right on a recent birthday) but incredibly police let Ford walk free

The assailant was quickly apprehended by the Good Samaritans outside of 229 Chrystie Street. They held the man on the ground until the police arrived.

Kuipers said that as the crowd detained the assailant, Alec Baldwin, who lives in the area, got out of his car to investigate the commotion.

'He was very concerned with what was going on,' Kuipers said.

'He visibly gets angry and upset and he tells him you messed up man, you are going to jail,' Kuipers recalled.

'He was even petting Meeka and being really nice and kind to everybody and trying to do his best to help out with the situation.'

When police arrived, they identified the suspect as Jerrod Ford, 50. But incredibly, even though Kuipers says Ford confessed to kicking Meeka, Ford was not arrested or charged, he said.

Strangers are seen after tackling and detaining Ford until police arrived on the scene

Alec Baldwin, seen walking his own dogs in lower Manhattan in a file photo, also stopped at the scene to check on Meeka and berate the assailant, Kuipers said

Meeka is seen recovering after the random and terrifying sidewalk assault

'He wasn't arrested because he 'caused no major injury to the dog' but we don't know that yet,' Kuipers said.

He said that Meeka was 'Crying and yelping like crazy, she was bleeding from the mouth, the cops hardly looked at the dog. I took her to the vet, and she confirmed the cuts on her mouth and her teeth being knocked loose.'

A Lower East Side Animal Hospital's patient chart for Meeka following the incident stated: 'Dental calculus, Loose/Missing Teeth, Trauma. Minimal excoriations around lower lip and lateral sides, scant blood on lower lip.'

An NYPD spokesman did not immediately respond to a request for comment from DailyMail.com on Tuesday.