QUEENS, NEW YORK: Marcus Rosebrock, 48, a stay-at-home father of two accused of “racism” for hosing down Black neighbors for having a loud party, says he is receiving death threats.
Rosebrock is accused of disrupting a birthday party hosted by his Black neighbor and prominent New York doctor, Yves Duroseau, on Saturday, September 17, 2022.
Rosebrock, who is a German, is accused of “hosing down” Duroseau’s party in his elegant Forest Hills home amid a furor regarding loud noise.
Per Daily Mail, Rosebrock said that he is now fearing for his children’s safety and had to resort to installing more security cameras as there has been an onslaught of death threats.
Marcus Rosebrock says he is ‘getting death threats over the phone’
Rosebrock said to the news outlet that following the incident he has been “getting death threats over the phone.”
He added, “They [his kids] are already scared, we had to let them know what was going on because there are a lot of Black families in the area, but it is not like that.”
“We had to inform the school too, I'm a class parent and I volunteer at the school but we had to tell them because rumors spread. There is still much more to be discovered about what happened, but I can't say any more because my attorney told me not to,” continued Rosebrock.
In a lawsuit filed by the 19 partygoers after a year of the incident, Rosebrock has been accused of “cruelly and repeatedly” hosing water on them “in an effort to get them to shut up and disperse.”
The father of two claimed that the party was “way too loud”. It went from 4 pm to beyond 10 pm and the noise grew “progressively louder.”
He added that he was not the only neighbor to have complained about the noise as there have been five other 311 calls and two 911 calls.
However, a year after the incident, Dr Duroseau and 18 other guests filed a complaint against Rosebrock accusing him of a racist attack.
He added in his interview to Daily Mail, “This has already destroyed us. They are trying to take away everything I own.”
Rosebrock, who lives with his wife and children, continued, “My kids could end up on the street, I could end up losing this house. They believe were are loaded, but we are not. I have not worked for the last 10 years I have been at home taking care of the kids.”
What did Marcus Rosebrock do?
Per the lawsuit filed by Dr Duroseau, he and his wife Claude organized a surprise party for his sister Rosevony Duroseau's 47th birthday on Saturday, September 17, 2022.
Dr Duroseau, chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine at Manhattan’s Lenox Hill Hospital, was also the first US doctor to have received the Covid vaccine in 2020.
The lawsuit claimed that Dr Duroseau and Rosevony, a US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) asylum officer based out of Washington, DC, are Haitian-American.
Except for one, all the other guests at the birthday party were Black or Latino, per The Daily Beast.
The high-profile guests at the party included several attorneys, a New Jersey public school administrator, and music producer Rigo Morales who has worked with Eminem.
Guests were served a nine-course meal curated by the 2011 winner of Bravo Reality Show ‘Rocco’s Dinner Party’, Vanessa Cantave.
Per the lawsuit obtained by The Daily Beast, as the party was nearing its end, an unnamed White woman, who is identified as Jane Doe came to the party with a “large, menacing German Shepherd,” only to demand “that the music playing in the backyard be turned down.”
Dr Duroseau allegedly told the woman that the party was winding up and went on with his socialization.
The lawsuit claimed that Rosebrock, who shares his backyard boundary with Duroseau’s “took his water hose and began water hosing [the guests] in the Duroseau's backyard to get them to disperse,” per Daily Mail.
It also claimed that the incident created “a scene reminiscent of 1960s Birmingham, Alabama, when White law enforcement officers used fire hoses to douse, assault and batter African Americans participating in civil rights demonstrations.”
Rosebrock allegedly increased the power of water and made sure the revelers were “completely drenched.”
While two NYPD police took report, one of the representative lawyers of the group Derek Sells said there has been “no follow-up since then, even though this incident should be investigated as a hate crime.”
Both Rosebrock and the woman with a German shepherd were termed “racist” in the lawsuit adding the plaintiffs suffered economic losses, “Each of the plaintiffs suffered economic losses as a result of [the defendants'] conduct.”
“Unable to use their property for a peaceful gathering, and humiliated, put into fear, embarrassed and degraded, plaintiffs seek justice for the assaultive conduct, battery and civil rights violations,” claimed the lawyers in the lawsuit.
