Wild street brawl over saved parking spot in Queens

A mum and daughter have been charged after savagely attacking a female driver for trying to park in a spot they were ‘saving’. WARNING: Distressing content

WARNING: Distressing content

An unhinged mother and her foul-mouthed daughter savagely attacked a female driver for trying to park in a spot they were “saving” in a caught-on-video brawl in Queens, New York.

Andreea Dumitru, 45, and her daughter Sabrina Starman, 21, are seen in a viral video posted to Reddit unloading on victim Jada McPherson on Monday — pulling her hair, flinging racial slurs and unleashing a flurry of punches as she tries to fend them off.

“They were trying to literally rip my hair out of my scalp,” said Ms McPherson, 21, a Pace University student who was renting in the neighbourhood, where hoarding on-street spaces has locals fuming.

The battle broke out after Ms McPherson tried to park in a spot Ms Dumitru and Ms Starman were guarding, cops said.

An unidentified man also joined in on the gang-up on Ms McPherson, but apparently hightailed it out of the area before police arrived.

“The guy, he ended up coming up behind me while I was trying to park and put a trash can to prevent me from parking,” Ms McPherson said.

When Ms McPherson couldn’t find another spot on the block, she came back to tell the family they couldn’t guard parking spots, she said. That’s when the man went “ballistic” and the mother-daughter pair flung racist language at Ms McPherson, who is black.

Footage of the wild brawl went viral on Reddit. Picture: I-am-Mihnea/Reddit

“You’re a monkey, b***h,” Ms Dumitru is heard shouting in the video.

Ms McPherson responds, “You’re an immigrant, b***h.”

Ms Starman then yells “You’re a f*****g slave b***h. You’re a slave for what it’s worth,” before lunging at her, and the fight ensues.

“I definitely did fear for my life,” Ms McPherson said.

Ms Starman and Ms Dumitru were later arrested and charged with first degree assault and second degree harassment, police said.

After the arrests, Ms McPherson eventually did get to park in the spot she fought for.

But she said she’s been on edge ever since and has only left the house with a friend or family-member. She plans to move out of the neighbourhood this weekend.

“Jumping one person for a parking space is really not right,” Ms McPherson said.

The mother and daughter were later arrested and charged. Picture: I-am-Mihnea/Reddit

Parking space hoarding has sparked tensions in the area, with the family seen in the brawl notorious offenders who claim public spaces as their own with traffic cones and other items, locals told The Post.

“You know, I could move the garbage cans and park, but then they could slash my car or something,” said Yesenia Delgado, 33, who has lived in the neighbourhood for 14 years.

“Someone is always there, holding the spot,” George Carrasquillo, 53, who lives across the street from the spot.

Mr Carrasquillo often drives to work in Manhattan, but has to park two blocks away from his home because he can’t find a spot.

“I have to take my kick scooter with me to drop the car off, I find parking, then come home to my apartment, and have to see all this, their beautiful spot saved. Isn’t this public parking?” Mr Carrasquillo said.

Ms Starman and Ms Dumitru have hired a lawyer and plan to fight the charges in court in September.

“You can’t claim to be a victim if you instigate an altercation with threatening behaviour and vile and hurtful language,” said Mahmoud Rabah, an lawyer for the pair.

Mr Rabah says the mother and daughter duo have received death threats since the video was posted.

This article originally appeared on NY Post and was reproduced with permission

Originally published as Wild street brawl over saved parking spot in Queens