*A prominent Black doctor in New York is taking legal action against his white neighbor who allegedly sprayed his dinner guests with a water hose.
The white man, identified as Marcus Rosebrock, 48, attacked his neighbors and their guests with a water hose to break up their party on Sept. 17, 2022, the lawsuit alleges, The Daily Mail reports.
Dr. Yves Duroseau, chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine at Manhattan’s Lenox Hill Hospital, hosted a birthday celebration for his sister, Rosevony Duroseau, with about 15 guests. The festivities included a nine-course dinner in the garden of the couple’s Forest Hills home. The guests were mostly of Black or Latino descent. An unidentified white woman disrupted the party with a “large, menacing German Shepherd,” and “demanded that the music playing in the backyard be turned down,” according to the civil lawsuit obtained by The Daily Beast.
When the party didn’t end fast enough, Rosebrock grabbed his backyard hose and started spraying the guests with water, “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.
Rosebrock, a married father of two, allegedly turned the hose on the guests repeatedly and increased the water pressure.
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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 attorney Mina Q. Malik, who is representing Duroseau and his wife, Claude, Raw Story reports. “I was in utter disbelief.”
According to Malik, who was also a the dinner party, the hosts, guests, and caterers remain “deeply scarred” and “feel degraded and humiliated” and “made to feel less than human.”
The Duroseaus allege that Rosebrock interfered with their right to enjoy their property in Queens by violating Title 8 of the New York City Administrative Code.
The incident has left the couple feeling like “prisoners in their own home,” according to the lawsuit.
The Duroseaus have not held any backyard events since the attack.
Rosebrock’s attorney, Brandon Gillard, denies the allegations and claims his client is not racist.
Watch a video from the dinner party incident below:
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