Meryl Streep’s nephew had a stroll and a drink Thursday morning — skipping a court appearance within the Hamptons — whereas the teenager he allegedly body-slammed in a match of street rage demanded the main woman’s kin “pay for what he did.”

David Peralta, 18, and about three dozen protesters gathered exterior East Hampton Justice Court, the place Charles Harrison Streep was scheduled for a listening to over the alleged Aug. 24 beatdown.

Streep, nonetheless, was a no-show for the digital convention, along with his two attorneys showing on his behalf. The former school lacrosse star was noticed in Manhattan on Thursday morning grabbing an obvious cup of joe.

He’s accused of body-slamming Peralta on Aug. 24 within the parking zone of a Chase financial institution in East Hampton after the 2 drivers practically hit one another on the intersection of Main Street and The Circle.

Peralta suffered a severe mind harm requiring emergency surgical procedure.

“Like, why was it needed?” the teenager puzzled exterior court. “Justice goes to get served, for my part, and he’ll need to pay for what he did. It was uncalled for.”

Peralta’s legal professional Edmond Chakmakian claimed that Streep hurled racial slurs at Peralta, who’s Ecuadorian, in the course of the assault.

Peralta filed swimsuit towards Streep, 31, final month, saying he now suffers from debilitating complications, dizziness and lack of reminiscence, forcing him to drop out of John Jay College.

“It’s going to take some time for my head to begin to heal, and mind,” he mentioned. “Physically, emotionally, it is laborious as a result of simply not being to do something, due to my head. I am unable to go to the health club, play soccer. I am unable to go to high school, sadly.”

Peralta’s girlfriend, Christina Lopez, 17, who was within the automotive on the time of the assault, claimed Streep — who fled the scene earlier than cops arrived — was smiling your entire time.

“That smile will all the time be in my thoughts as a result of it was so dangerous,” she recalled on the courthouse. “How might he smile by means of that? Then he simply left.”

Lawyers for Streep — who’s charged with strangulation and assault — have maintained that he is harmless, saying he’ll be cleared by video of the alleged altercation.

“We consider that this incontrovertible videotape proof clearly proves that Mr. Peralta incurred his head harm within the technique of lifting Mr. Streep into the air and slamming him to the bottom, not the opposite manner round,” legal professional Andrew Weinstein mentioned in an announcement.

“Notwithstanding the distorted and self-serving narrative being peddled to the media by Mr. Peralta and his legal professional, we preserve {that a} full, truthful and neutral evaluate of all of the accessible proof within the case will set up that Mr. Streep didn’t commit both of the crimes with which he has been charged.”