Todd Maisel/ New York Daily News
A couple was set upon in their vehicle by youths spewing racial slurs, who then beat up the driver, who was waiting at light at Avenue U and East 53rd Street next to Kings Plaza, Brooklyn.
This time it was black on white hate.
And the only cure for it is orange prison jumpsuits.
Right over there by the traffic light near Kings Plaza at Avenue U and E. 58th St. , a guy named Ronald Russo, 30, sits in his car with his wife, Alanna, 30, about 7 p.m. Oct. 14, waiting for a red light to turn green to drive less than a mile home.
The light switches to green as a group of 10 black youths, ages 12 to 18, steps in front of the car in the crosswalk, according to prosecutors. The kids linger. Don’t move. Russo taps the horn. Instead of crossing, the youths start kicking the car. Banging on the windows, authorities say.
Sound familiar?
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It’s eerily similar to the family that was surrounded by a gang of violent motorcyclists on the West Side Highway.
But this one is even worse.
Because this one drips with ugly racial hatred that has absolutely no place in this city.
Ronald Russo, who is white, makes the mistake of climbing out of his car to assess the damage. And one of the teens shouts, “White motherf—ers!” Russo is dragged to the ground and punched, kicked, pummeled. The punks fracture his nose and leave him with a blood clot, abrasions on his shoulder and bruises on his head.
“Get that white whore,” another black guy shouts, rushing Russo’s wife, who is dialing 911, authorities said.
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A 12-year-old girl grabs Alanna by her hair, slamming her to the pavement face-first, blackening her eye, drawing blood.
“Get those crackers,” someone else shouts .
One of the group snatches Ronald Russo’s iPhone and the gang of bigots races off into the night.
But this was not the Deep South.
And it wasn’t Cross Bay Blvd. in Howard Beach, Queens, in 1986.
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This was Avenue U, a block off Flatbush Ave. outside Kings Plaza, a shopping league of nations in the “new Brooklyn,” a diverse and progressive bastion, home of tolerant hipsters, liberal yuppies and mayoral candidate Bill de Blasio who raises biracial kids with his African-American wife.
Yet, behind the boutique cafes and food co-ops, Brooklyn simmers with pockets of lingering racial hatred.
This crime was outrageous. And it must be punished.
Two of these alleged hatemongers, Kashawn Kirton, 18, and Daehrell Finch, 17, were later arrested at the nearby Lowe’s store, along with two juvenile suspects.
Kirton denied the charges, which included assault and menacing as hate crimes, to a Daily News reporter.
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But prosecutors think they have the right guys.
“It doesn’t surprise me one bit,” said Rita Zaremba, who pushed her grandchild in a stroller into Kings Plaza on Monday morning. “My daughter, who’s 37, was pushing both my grandkids in a double stroller last week near Bergen Beach, talking on her iPhone, when four teenagers approached, two black guys, two white girls. And one of the guys just snatched the iPhone from my daughter’s hand as she talked. No racial comment, but it was just brazen, menacing and scary.”
“It’s disgusting,” said Frank Carter, a black man who was dropping off his wife at work at Kings Plaza. “I grew up in Astoria with Greeks, Irish, Italian, Ecuadorian, Romanian, Russian, Asian, black. Everybody chasing the same green dollar. My assessment: young and dumb. ”
A mile away, on a tree-lined street, there was no one home in the Russo house.
“They’re both at work,” said next-door neighbor John Blanco, adjusting flowers in front of a statue of the Blessed Mother. “He works construction, I think. His wife leaves at 7 every morning to work in an office in Long Island. Comes home at 7. Both work hard. Awful they get attacked because of their color.”
“Put these punks in jail,” says his wife, Joanne Blanco, from her second-floor balcony.
“Send a message,” said John Blanco. “We don’t accept this kind of hatred, from blacks or whites, anymore in Brooklyn.”
Color him correct.
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