Video shows black NYC partiers scatter for cover as white neighbor douses them with garden hose
New video footage shows the moment a white neighbor unleashes his garden hose on guests at a Queens dinner party as the mostly black revelers scatter for cover in what they claim was a deliberate attempt to make them feel like “less than” animals.
The footage — released Wednesday night by attorneys for the partygoers — opens with surprised attendees wiping their faces from the initial spray of water and laughing while enjoying a surprise party for Rosevony Duroseau at her Forest Hills home on Sept. 17, 2022.
Neighbor Marcus Rosebrock allegedly began his aquatic attack by lightly spritzing the group with his garden hose after complaining about noise coming from their backyard fete.
“That is crazy! He’s trying to fight,” one guest can be heard saying while another points at Rosebrock’s yard and says: “He’s the one I was expecting problems with you.”
That’s when a strong stream of water surged over the property line and made repeated, aggressive sweeps from one end of Duroseau’s yard to the other.
The guests — who were almost entirely black and Latino — started screaming and running, with several rushing toward the house.
“I’m videotaping the neighbors throwing water on everyone at Rose’s party. I am videotaping the neighbor throwing water at us,” the camerawoman can be heard yelling.
The group appeared to be enjoying the reggae classic “No, No, No” by Dawn Penn at a moderate volume. The spray stopped the moment the music was cut off.
Several partygoers, including one standing in a backyard playhouse, tried to communicate with the neighbor over the property line, which was obscured by a fence and bushes — but instead met another, less strong dousing.
“We’re calling the cops,” the camerawoman said before the clip ended.
The 19 revelers filed a lawsuit against Rosebrock this month, alleging that he used the water as a calculated tool “reminiscent” of 1960s Birmingham, Ala., where white cops would use fire hoses to break up black civil rights demonstrations, the court papers claim.
“We experienced a very specific, very heinous type of attack that harkens back to a dark period of this country’s history,” plaintiff Katya Dossous said Tuesday, calling the incident “racist harassment.”
“An attack I believe was premeditated, deliberate and thought out with the intent to make us feel ‘less than,’ like animals.”
Photos obtained by The Post show a shocked Dossous, of Brooklyn, with soaked clothes moments after the alleged incident.
The group claims Rosebrock’s attack came shortly after an unidentified white woman and her German shepherd came over to the Duroseau home demanding that they turn the music down at 9:50 p.m.
The swanky festivities were attended by prominent music executive Rigo Morales, former Fordham Law classmates of Duroseau’s and the evening’s nine-course meal was catered by Vanessa Cantave, the winner of Season 11 of the Bravo show “Rocco’s Dinner Party.”
Rosebrock’s lawyer, Brandon Gillard, reiterated Wednesday his earlier statements denying “any characterization that [Rosebrock] is racist or that his actions were racially motivated.”
The Forest Hills man, through Gillard, denied all the allegations, adding that the Duroseau attendees were allegedly “aggressive and violent.”
