A Black New York City doctor and his wife were having a dinner party with about 15 guests when an unidentified white woman showed up with a “large, menacing German Shepherd" and “demanded that the music playing in the backyard be turned down,” The Daily Beast reported.
According to a civil lawsuit filed by Dr. Yves Duroseau, when the party didn't end, a white neighbor grabbed his backyard hose and started soaking the guests, “creating a scene reminiscent of 1960s Birmingham, Alabama, when White law enforcement officers used fire hoses to douse, assault and batter African Americans participating in civil rights demonstrations in an attempt to get them to comply and disperse,” the complaint states.
Duroseau is Haitian -American and all but one of the guests at the gathering were Black or Latino. As The Daily Beast points out, Duroseau was the first physician in the U.S. to receive the COVID vaccine back in 2020.
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The complaint states that the neighbor, Marcus Rosebrock, turned the hose on the guests again and again until they were drenched and thoroughly humiliated during the party in 2022.
"The Duroseaus’ suit claims, among other things, that Rosebrock violated their civil rights under Title 8 of the New York City Administrative Code, alleging he interfered with their 'right... to enjoy the ownership of real property within the City of New York, County of Queens.' The couple have not held a backyard event since the incident, and have essentially become, in [lawyer Mina Q. Malik] words, 'prisoners in their own home,'" The Daily Beast's report stated.
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"Yves and Claude Duroseau, along with all 15 guests, the caterer, and her sous chef, are now demanding Rosebrock fork over undetermined monetary damages for the mental anguish and emotional distress they say he and the dog lady, who is identified in the complaint as 'Jane Doe,' caused them."
“I was appalled and disgusted that water hosing and German Shepherds were being used against people of color in New York City in 2022,” said Malik, a candidate in 2019 for Queens District Attorney who is representing the Duroseaus and who was also at the dinner party. “I was in utter disbelief.”
Read the full report over at The Daily Beast.
