Parking Space Brawl Escalates Into Road Rage Assault, Four Injured And Wrecked Bakery

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A street fight over a park spot later escalated, after one of the men drove into a business


An argument over a parking spot turned violent on Monday, after an angry Queens driver attempted to run over his adversaries and ended up plowing through the window of a brand new bakery, police said.

At least four people were injured in the road rage assault, which happened on Kissena Boulevard near Flushing's Main Street just after 5 p.m., according to an NYPD spokesperson.

Surveillance and bystander video shared with Gothamist shows a curbside brawl between four men that broke out over the coveted parking spot. One of the assailants can be seen swinging a baseball bat at another man, who police identified as 24-year-old Jie Zou.

Zou then got into his Audi A6 and attempted to run over the bat-wielding man and his friend, according to police and witnesses. In the process, he jumped the curb and plunged through the window of Rainbow Bakery, which was celebrating its grand opening on Monday.

Three women and a man were hospitalized with non life-threatening injuries, police said. Zou was charged with assault and reckless endangerment. The passenger in his car, 35-year-old Jonathan Zhang, was also charged with assault, police said.

Rainbow Bakery owner John Lo told CBS2 that one of his employees was struck by a shard of glass, and most of his new merchandise was damaged. "I'm so sad," he told the outlet. "It's unbelievable."

For some Queens parking devotees, the motorist-on-motorist violence is just a preview of the NIMBY backlash expected under a citywide plan to to install a .3 mile busway along the clogged corridor between Northern Boulevard and Sanford Avenue.

"What happened yesterday is a little appetizer of what’s going to happen, but even worse," Andy Chen, a driver and activist with Asian American Community Empowerment, told Gothamist. "The [Department of Transportation] and Mayor’s Office bears responsibility for what actually happened."

The city's busway project, which has the backing of many Flushing residents and business leaders, is expected to improve trips for about 150,000 daily riders.

But opponents have mounted a full-scale attack on the street redesign, claiming the reduction in parking will harm small businesses. This summer, City Councilman Peter Koo was forced to apologize, after chanting "BLM! Business Lives Matter!” in protest of the busway.

In response to a lawsuit, a judge issued a temporary restraining order on the busway last week. A final decision is expected next month.



Source: https://gothamist.com/news/video-pa...age-assault-injuring-four-and-wrecking-bakery

 

[Elzo69Renaissance]

A bone is just a bone......

 

[King Freeman]

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A street fight over a park spot later escalated, after one of the men drove into a business


An argument over a parking spot turned violent on Monday, after an angry Queens driver attempted to run over his adversaries and ended up plowing through the window of a brand new bakery, police said.

At least four people were injured in the road rage assault, which happened on Kissena Boulevard near Flushing's Main Street just after 5 p.m., according to an NYPD spokesperson.

Surveillance and bystander video shared with Gothamist shows a curbside brawl between four men that broke out over the coveted parking spot. One of the assailants can be seen swinging a baseball bat at another man, who police identified as 24-year-old Jie Zou.

Zou then got into his Audi A6 and attempted to run over the bat-wielding man and his friend, according to police and witnesses. In the process, he jumped the curb and plunged through the window of Rainbow Bakery, which was celebrating its grand opening on Monday.

Three women and a man were hospitalized with non life-threatening injuries, police said. Zou was charged with assault and reckless endangerment. The passenger in his car, 35-year-old Jonathan Zhang, was also charged with assault, police said.

Rainbow Bakery owner John Lo told CBS2 that one of his employees was struck by a shard of glass, and most of his new merchandise was damaged. "I'm so sad," he told the outlet. "It's unbelievable."

For some Queens parking devotees, the motorist-on-motorist violence is just a preview of the NIMBY backlash expected under a citywide plan to to install a .3 mile busway along the clogged corridor between Northern Boulevard and Sanford Avenue.

"What happened yesterday is a little appetizer of what’s going to happen, but even worse," Andy Chen, a driver and activist with Asian American Community Empowerment, told Gothamist. "The [Department of Transportation] and Mayor’s Office bears responsibility for what actually happened."

The city's busway project, which has the backing of many Flushing residents and business leaders, is expected to improve trips for about 150,000 daily riders.

But opponents have mounted a full-scale attack on the street redesign, claiming the reduction in parking will harm small businesses. This summer, City Councilman Peter Koo was forced to apologize, after chanting "BLM! Business Lives Matter!” in protest of the busway.

In response to a lawsuit, a judge issued a temporary restraining order on the busway last week. A final decision is expected next month.



Source: https://gothamist.com/news/video-pa...age-assault-injuring-four-and-wrecking-bakery

Yup. Another reason I try not to drive. Cause I'd snap and do some ignorant shit like that. I run too hot. Never hit a nigga car while you standing in front of it lol.

 

[Chicity]

Got damn!

 

[Banginscrew901]

Lmao

 

[Banginscrew901]

Real talk his foot probably slipped and there you go

 

[Playmaker88]

:wtf20:

 

[Big Lurko]

:wtf20:

When will niggas learn to not go head up wit a nigga in a car

 

[JUDAH]

:wtf20:

This ignant LMAO

 

[AZTG]

:wtf20:

Dude was trying to leave, but a mfer tried attacking him with a bat, and hit his car. He was scared for his life and ran the mfer over.

Self defense.

Either that defense works, or dude is gonna catch an attempted murder or murder charge.

 

[Duwop]

:wtf20:

Do you back out?

Or just take the L till the cops come

 

[1/2]

When will niggas learn to not go head up wit a nigga in a car

i agree but I also think its the ultimate crash out and quit move to run a mf over just cuz you dont wanna fight

like fuck his life, your car, your freedom, license, all that......you coulda just got out and boxed....at the very worst you get slumped but you wake your ass up and go home

im seeing this shit too much now smh

 

[1/2]

Dude was trying to leave, but a mfer tried attacking him with a bat, and hit his car. He was scared for his life and ran the mfer over.

Self defense.

Either that defense works, or dude is gonna catch an attempted murder or murder charge.

nah he was scrappin tho....you dont get to call timeout on a street fight when you want it to be over

if its an emergency yeah get the fuck outta there but wasnt nobody shooting...he didnt have to do all that turning around either if he was so scared

 

[King Freeman]

Ehh..I'm running a mf over. I'm just not driving all the way into a storefront.

 

[1/2]

a 21 yr old girl just got hit w/ a 40 year sentence for doing that shit here

was fighting the side chick and decided to run her over but the girl got pinned and died

got damn just shoot me mane......dont fuckin run me over

:wtf11:

 

[LurkerSix]

:wtf20:

SEE IT: Enraged driver vying for Queens parking spot punches stranger in face, crashes car through bakery storefront

A Queens parking spot dispute exploded into a wild road rage rampage, with one driver sucker-punching the other before crashing his car through the glass storefront of a newly-opened bakery, police…

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A Queens parking spot dispute exploded into a wild road rage rampage, with one driver sucker-punching the other before crashing his car through the glass storefront of a newly-opened bakery, police said Tuesday.
An enraged Jie Zou jumped from behind the wheel of his white Audi as another vehicle angled for the coveted space, slugging the other driver in the face before ruining the grand opening of the Rainbow Bakery by plowing his vehicle six feet inside the fledgling business, cops said.

Terrifying cellphone video captured Zou making a U-turn and slamming his car into his rival, who went bouncing off the Audi’s hood as the car accelerated across four lanes of traffic and through the glass — with one terrified customer exiting through the rubble while another lies dazed on the sidewalk.
Zou’s bat-wielding passenger, Jonathan Zhang, whacked in the arm a 34-year-old man defending the other driver in the 3:55 p.m. ruckus. The rival driver, identified as Zong Li, 35, of Belford, N.J., at one point managed to wrest the bat away and smashed it against the Audi’s hood before he was nearly run down, the video shows.

Once the punching ended, cops say, Zou climbed back into his car and hit the gas, hitting Li before jumping the curb and crashing into the bakery. Both the 24-year-old driver and passenger Zhang, 35, were arrested at the scene, with Zou charged with reckless endangerment and assault while his passenger was hit with an assault charge.
The Queens District Attorney’s office declined prosecution of Zhang, but did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the decision. Zou’s arraignment was still pending late Tuesday. Li, the driver of the other car, suffered injuries to his leg and arm, police said.
Surveillance video shows a man falling to the ground as the white Audi zips by at high speed into the storefront, sending sidewalk pedestrians running for cover. Three women standing near the crash site were hit by flying glass and debris, officials said.
Medics took the women and the two men injured in the clash to New York-Presbyterian Queens. They all had minor injuries and are expected to recover.
Lo said one of his workers was among the injured but was released from the hospital Monday and doing well.

“It’s just for a parking space,” said devastated bakery owner John Lo as he stood Tuesday in the wreckage. “It’s like a movie, right?”
Lo, who hopes to reopen in a month, returned to survey a business reduced to shattered glass and twisted metal. The ruined store is now shuttered with a metal grate pulled down over its front.
“Very sad,” said the 45-year-old businessman. “We put a lot (of money) in for the renovation and then ... (he) almost destroyed it all ... It’s lucky it’s the first day, not too many know we are open. And at the time, nobody in here. Nobody hurt, nobody died."

 

[JUDAH]

Ehh..I'm running a mf over. I'm just not driving all the way into a storefront.

Rage is a MF. In the past, I've been in fight where the ground game came in to play and I've slammed people on concrete. Thinking back, i could have killed them. I always regretted it after the fact, but in the moment i didn't care. I would never hit someone with a car though. That's a instant attempted murder charge.

You can't lose it completely in those types of situations.

 

[AZTG]

nah he was scrappin tho....you dont get to call timeout on a street fight when you want it to be over

if its an emergency yeah get the fuck outta there but wasnt nobody shooting...he didnt have to do all that turning around either if he was so scared

I feel you. Im not justifying what dude did, just wondering what his defense is gonna be.

Also, shit wasnt a fair fight. Im out the car trying to throw hands, but you pull out a bat, I might run your ass over.

Theres also the fact that dude was done fighting, tried to pull a uturn and leave, but a mfer ran him down and kept swinging the bat. The i was scared defense might work, or, you bout to do football numbers over a parking spot.

 

[AZTG]

Also, keep in mind, only reason the mfer got ran over is because this was in NY. Cant carry guns in that mfer.

If this was the south, the situation would have been that dude ran at him with a bat and swung it, and the mfer pulled out and put 3 hot ones in him.

Down south thats a good defense.

In NY though, with a car, that might be 20 years. Lmao.

 

[Playmaker88]

Do you back out?

Or just take the L till the cops come

Man might as well get all the stars at that point