A positive ID was made using photos from the profile. Moments later, the driver exits his vehicle and assaults the pedestrian, grabbing his phone and throwing it against the pavement.Ī Facebook profile with the username “Joe O’Brien (Dustin Gold)” has been linked to the driver seen in the video.
O’Brien laughs at his response before saying, “Okay. When asked what he was planning to do with the recording, the pedestrian informs the driver he plans to upload it to the internet. “No, you’re not? Well you look like it,” the driver fired back.
“You are so fierce,” the pedestrian mockingly responds. The only person who is an asshole is you for recording,” the driver snaps back. “I’m an asshole? Honey, look in the mirror okay. “Because you’re an asshole,” he responds. “Are you recording me?” O’Brien says when he realizes someone is pointing a cellphone towards him. F*cking n****r,” O’Brien is heard yelling from his car at the sanitation worker on Saturday. “Hey yo, it’ll be smart to get out of the middle of the street asshole. A man who was caught on video yelling a racist slur at an African-American sanitation worker in New York City and then attacking the person who recorded it on his cellphone has been identified by NYC city council candidate Anthony Beckford as Justin O’Brien, a gay adult performer who goes by the stage name “ Dustin Gold.”
