A city sanitation Department worker was attacked and was a threatened a motorist was angry when he could not their truck as she raised said the authorities trash, on Saturday.
Officials said the attack Friday unfolds at 7:30 pm as the worker, Vincent DeBlasio and Beverly Watson, made their way to the North along the East 96th Street, between Rutland road and East New York Avenue in East Flatbush.
The Union that represents them, the Uniformed Sanitationmen Association, quickly renewed its call to national law, an attack on a sanitation workers would make it a crime.
Mr DeBlasio, 30, said that he was busy download living garbage in the back of the truck was a car drawn upwards and the driver "very angry" he could not stand.
"He has out of the car, and he said ' Park the thing;" Put the somewhere, truck ' ", Mr DeBlasio, said that the Department on Dec. 13 joined. '"My partner said, ' can not set we everywhere, it is this anywhere to this truck set.' "He to give us a chance."
The man then cursed and threatened Ms Watson, returned to his car and began talking about a cell phone, added Mr DeBlasio. He said he then noticed another man, who with a woman at the curb, way to him as a trash can had been emptied.
"While I was in the middle of the store, I got stamped right in the mouth," said Mr DeBlasio.
Mr DeBlasio fell backward, hitting his elbow and his head. The attacker ran and entered a building on the corner. Mrs Watson referred to a supervisor, who then called the police.
Were officers from the 67th Precinct "in a very short time", said Mr DeBlasio.
The officers arrested the man in the car, as Henry rink, 28, Brooklyn identified. Mr. rink was accused in the path of the sanitation workers, which prevents that they their work by State administration and harassment disability and threatening, punch, Mrs Watson, said the police.
According to the information on the website of the State Department of Correctional Services Mr. rink was little more than five years in prison for robbery, burglary and assault convictions. 2006 He was released into the care of parole.
Mr DeBlasio was for cuts and other minor injuries at the Brookdale University Hospital and Medical Center treated. Investigators were still the man search, who punched him.
On Saturday, the Union on the case to promote their cause legislation in Albany passing it a crime, sanitation workers attack would seize. Sanitation workers would equality, in law, with their colleagues civil service in fire and police departments of the city.
"This legislation, if a crime for the attacks on the city has all other workers, then a crime to have let to you because we everyday are out on the street," said Harry Nespoli, President of the Association of the Uniformed Sanitationmen.
"It seems as it happens more and more to us." As soon as the weather is better, which are people more driving around and they are very impatient. All we do is our task to do. "We recognize that people in a hurry, but we just try to do our work."
Mr DeBlasio said that workers always, "on the back of" your mind, the possibility of violence. But he said in this case there was really nowhere else for them, to the truck and that the attacker "does not give us a chance," to get out of the way.
"It was 15 feet from where the exchange of words, which I happen stamped took," he said. "We were just working." Not a word was out of my mouth; "All the words were partner and man between my."
All said Mr Nespoli, sanitation do their best workers to stay by driver out of the way. He added however, that workers on verbal jibes and bad, and are increasingly exposed.
"We trying to get the block to you courtesy, go," he said, adding that at the same time, his workers have to offset trash get their commitment.
"We can hide with this truck;" "It is a big white elephant is", he said. "We should not in the House and we continue to have in a tempo move." But if the big, we will be a while there. "It is not everyone give a right to get their hands."
Mr a. Nespoli said that the legislation was introduced last year in Albany, after an other sanitation attacked workers with a shovel in Manhattan. But he said the Bill "only there died."
Jim Grossman, a spokesman for the Union, said the Bill had passed in the Senate last year but "it was reports never Committee," in the State Assembly.
Vito A. Turso, a spokesman for the sanitation Department, said, "New York City sanitation workers very hard work and many challenges are on their routes and their safety is the paramount concern of the Department." "So we would support this pending legislation."
A spokesman for Governor Andrew M. Cuomo could not immediately comment on the problem.
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