“They should keep them out of the park … I don’t take my kids to the park, I don’t want them to see something bad.”
“Most of the people in the park are good, but you have some bad ones and they are giving the park a bad name,” Abdelbaky said. Hassaneen and Abdelalim Abdelbaky, 28, who operates the cart, said it was not the first attack on him or his employees in a park plagued by recent violence and illegal drug use. They came out to have fun and enjoy themselves.” I don’t have a problem with them,” Hassaneen said. Leeroy Johnson Nader Hassaneen could need surgery for his injured nose. The mob of people threw hot sauce in Nader Hassaneen. Police said the brawl broke out over prices of items - but a videographer who captured the beatdown claimed it was sparked by one of the cart workers hurling an anti-gay slur. There were a lot of people coming at me at the same time.” There were about 30 or 40 cops near the arch,” Hassaneen said Tuesday, “but I was scared when they came at me. “I felt safe because the cops were around.
Hassaneen is then slugged by a woman and falls to the ground, which is when police arrive. at Fifth Avenue and Washington Square North shows the vendors frantically trying to calm the revelers, some dressed in rainbow outfits for Pride celebrations earlier in the day. Video of the beatdown just before 11 p.m. Mango Hassaneen was also punched in the back of his head. He added, “I’m never going back there.” A woman snapped the wooden pole of an American flag that was attached to a food cart that Nader Hassaneen was working at. “When I saw the blood in my cap and I was bleeding from my nose, I thought I was going to bleed to death.” That was when one of the assailants threw the hot sauce and all hell broke loose, recalled Hassaneen, who stopped working as a full-time street vendor because of a heart condition. “My friend asked her, ‘Why did you do that?’” “I was videotaping it and telling her she shouldn’t do that,” Hassaneen said from his home in Brooklyn. He said the melee began when a woman yanked an American flag off the cart, demanding it be replaced with a Pride flag instead - an encounter previously described to The Post by vendor Abdo Mansour. “A lot of people were hurting me and pushing me around. They punched in the back of the head. “My eyes were burning,” Hassaneen told The Post in Arabic, while his daughter translated. Nader Hassaneen, 65, an Egyptian immigrant and retired street vendor, was on hand Sunday night to help son’s pal with his food cart when the unruly mob descended on him - beating him up and tossing hot sauce in his eyes. The hot dog vendor caught on camera getting pummeled by punks outside Washington Square Park thought he was going to “bleed to death” that night - and vowed Tuesday to “never go back” to the problem-plagued park. It was a Dog Day Halloween in Washington Square Parkĭrug dealers make Washington Square Park their home - thanks to de Blasio’s fuzzy thinking Teen stabbed in head inside Washington Square Park: cops
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