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Shocking video shows mob wreak fiery havoc on NYC intersection — as lawmakers call for crackdown on chaos
NY Post ^ | 4/18/26 | Sonya Gugliara, Rich Calder

Posted on 04/18/2026 3:09:02 PM PDT by Libloather

A lawless mob wreaked fiery havoc on a Queens intersection during a late-night car takeover as local lawmakers demand a crackdown on these unhinged meetups.

Shocking video shows reckless drivers whipping around the intersection at 69th Street and Eliot Avenue in Queens early Saturday morning.

Over 100 vehicles clogged up the roads along the Maspeth-Middle Village border.

A man appeared to wave a Palestinian flag as he burned rubber, just narrowly missing those standing around the car while it made donuts around a massive street blaze.

Flames arose from the street as hordes of brazen participants filmed the dangerous drivers – who sped off as cops arrived.

“Last night was a zoo,” one neighbor, who didn’t share her name, told The Post. “When that ring of fire came out, that scared the hell out of me.”

Councilman Phil Wong (D-Queens) slammed the incident as “disgusting.”

“This kind of reckless behavior is an attack on our quality of life, and it cannot be tolerated,” he said.

He said three people jumped on top of the responding police car and shattered its windshield – but the culprits got away.

At least one of the drivers was issued a citation for blocking a crosswalk and the case is under investigation, cops said.

Cops responded to the incident around 1:50 a.m., about one minute after first being notified, according to police.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


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Defund the police ya bunch of commie jackasses.
1 posted on 04/18/2026 3:09:02 PM PDT by Libloather
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To: Libloather

Zohran lead the side show?


2 posted on 04/18/2026 3:12:59 PM PDT by Regulator (It's fraud, Jim)
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To: Libloather

Zohran lead the side show?


3 posted on 04/18/2026 3:13:08 PM PDT by Regulator (It's fraud, Jim)
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To: Libloather

The left loves anarchy.


4 posted on 04/18/2026 3:13:26 PM PDT by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon." Amen. Come, Lord Jesus….)
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To: Libloather

AOC creating a local GAZA in her “home” town?


5 posted on 04/18/2026 3:15:11 PM PDT by Paladin2 (YMMV)
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To: Libloather

They voted for this.


6 posted on 04/18/2026 3:15:17 PM PDT by HYPOCRACY (Wake up, smell the cat food in your bank account. )
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To: Libloather

Ha haaaaaas! You chose poorly, New Yawkers. Enjoy the warm suck of Mamdani-ism.


7 posted on 04/18/2026 3:16:36 PM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all. )
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To: Libloather

Who the hell let this happen? Oh, wait, never mind was Mandani or his wife there. NYC should put out signs saying “ Welcome to New York City, the Most Effed up City in the USA”.


8 posted on 04/18/2026 3:16:48 PM PDT by Equine1952 (MM1SS SASOB)
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To: Libloather

Wong is right!


9 posted on 04/18/2026 3:17:58 PM PDT by Repeal The 17th ( I am obsessed with not being obsessed with anything.)
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> At least one of the drivers was issued a citation for blocking a crosswalk… <

That’ll teach him.

Not that a more serious charge would matter. A NYC judge would just dismiss it.


10 posted on 04/18/2026 3:24:26 PM PDT by Leaning Right
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To: Libloather

It seems like drones and the normal public and business cameras could collect all the evidence needed to make solid arrests of the core people and vehicles involved.

Do that and then send in the arresting crews and tire popping devices, blocking vehicles, and roadblocks and run down the ones who escape, with the camera data.

This isn’t even close to being an unsolvable problem, surely the NYPD can figure out something.


11 posted on 04/18/2026 3:28:49 PM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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Apparently, the jaywalker was found, arrested and charged. (The criminals who destroyed a police car .. .. .. were ignored. Are not even mentioned. The crowd rioting around the flames, cheering on the destruction, .. .. .. were ignored.)

They must have bbeen suffering from excessive white privilege.


12 posted on 04/18/2026 3:34:10 PM PDT by Robert A Cook PE
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To: metmom

Lefty legs are tingling with enthusiasm.


13 posted on 04/18/2026 3:34:21 PM PDT by blackdog (The philosophy of the schoolroom in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.)
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To: Libloather

Well, at least it was not a bunch of Indian illegals with CDLs in overturned trucks blocking the intersection. I’ll take Amish yutes in stolen cars doing the blocking over that any day of the week.


14 posted on 04/18/2026 3:35:11 PM PDT by chuckee (As Hillary sa)
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Let me guess the perps were not of freckle face red haired ginger milk toned stock.

No they were something much darker and more ominous, like raging evil storm clouds.

15 posted on 04/18/2026 3:35:24 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie ( O give thanks unto the Lord, for He is gracious, and his mercy endures forever. — Psalm 106)
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I am reminded “An armed society is a polite society.” Chaos is the result of knowing whose hands are tied.


16 posted on 04/18/2026 3:36:21 PM PDT by lastchance (Cognovit Dominus qui sunt eius.)
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“lawmakers demand a crackdown on these unhinged meetups.”

Reap what you sow, jerkwads

What did you think no police, lenient judges, compliant and weak prosecutors , early release, taking Soros bucks, etc would get you?

Maybe the lawmakers could make more laws. That should fix it right up.


17 posted on 04/18/2026 3:38:06 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom ( )
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To: Libloather

Pffffttttt! They had shootings in el-lay at one last week.


18 posted on 04/18/2026 3:46:46 PM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? On hold! Enlisted USN 1967 proudly. 🚫💉! 🇮🇱🙏! Winning currently!)
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To: Libloather

How many “community policing social workers” were sent in to break this up?


19 posted on 04/18/2026 3:48:43 PM PDT by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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To: Libloather

Doesn’t the new Madmandani’s administration now have Social Workers in the DMV and Fire Department? They could address this entire situation by copying John Kerry. They could bring in James Taylor to sing You’ve Got A Friend. That would solve it in a jiffy!


20 posted on 04/18/2026 3:51:54 PM PDT by Ronaldus Magnus III (Do, or do not, there is no try. )
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