White Neighbor Allegedly Hoses Prominent Black Party Guests
When Rosevony Duroseau turned 47 last year, her brother and sister-in-law hosted a small surprise party to celebrate.
Dr. Yves Duroseau, chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine at Manhattan’s Lenox Hill Hospital, and his designer wife, Claude, had about 15 guests over on Sept. 17, 2022—a Saturday evening—for a nine-course dinner in the back garden of their gracious Forest Hills home. The occasion was especially joyous for Rosevony, who had recently gotten engaged.
Yves, who in 2020 was the first physician in the U.S. to receive the COVID vaccine, and Rosevony, a U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) asylum officer based out of Washington, D.C., are Haitian-American, and all but one of the guests at the gathering were Black or Latino. Among them were friends of Rosevony’s from Fordham Law School, where she earned her J.D., along with attorneys from the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division and New York State Gov. Kathy Hochul’s administration, two bank executives, a New Jersey public schools administrator, at least one public defender, high-powered music industry player Rigo Morales, who co-founded the Recording Academy’s Black Music Collective, and Rosevony’s fiancé, the co-founder and CEO of a cybersecurity risk management consultancy. The meal was catered by chef Vanessa Cantave, 2011 winner of Bravo cooking competition show, Rocco’s Dinner Party.
But as things started to draw to a close, an unidentified white woman showed up with a “large, menacing German Shepherd,” and “demanded that the music playing in the backyard be turned down,” according to an astonishing civil lawsuit obtained by The Daily Beast.
When the “effort to silence Plaintiffs and end their celebration” apparently didn’t happen fast enough, the party “abruptly and forcefully ended” when a white neighbor grabbed his backyard hose and started hosing the guests to get them to disperse—“creating a scene reminiscent of 1960’s Birmingham, Alabama, when White law enforcement officers used fire hoses to douse, assault and batter African Americans participating in civil rights demonstrations in an attempt to get them to comply and disperse,” the complaint states.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/white-neighbor-allegedly-hoses-down-prominent-black-dinner-party-guests?ref=home
You'd think it was FloriDUH. Or Texass
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The civil lawsuit is here: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23980967-duroseau-at-al-v-rosebrock-et-al
(It's kindly provided by The Daily Beast in their article.)
You'd be amazed what you can learn in the OP links.
wife who is a designer doesn't have the same ring 
Trust me, the incident in my neighborhood was a casual get together, not a concert. “Maybe the neighbors were racist about music.” That’s an interesting statement. The neighboring tenant here was upscale White and his friends in the band were all Black. I’m not racist about music, but every other word in their lyrics was the ‘n word’. I found it incredibly offensive, especially since there are children nearby. And their own kids were at the party. I can’t understand how that is in any way acceptable.
I have no problem with a neighbor celebrating a happy event, even if it is loud, as long as it is for a limited period of time and infrequent. I can even tolerate country music within reason. But there are limits.
