Posted on 10/04/2022 12:01:59 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
INDIALANTIC, Fla. - The mayor of a Florida town was arrested after police said he hit another man in the face with a rake while they were cleaning up a park in Brevard County after Hurricane Ian.
David Berkman, 59, is facing a misdemeanor battery charge.
According to an affidavit from the Indialantic Police Department, the victim – Melvyn Chang – and Berkman were both in Orlando Park in Indialantic on Friday assisting with cleanup efforts after Hurricane Ian spread debris across the area.
Police said Chang was sitting on a picnic table recording Berkman after Berkman allegedly made several comments about "kicking his a**," the affidavit stated.
The report went on to say that "after several minutes the defendant walked up and shoved a leaf rake with a plastic end into the face of the victim causing the rake to hit the victims phone and his face."
The victim reportedly captured the incident on his cellphone.
No other information has been released about the incident.
“If you’ve got the tine, I’ve got the beer.”
Leaf Florida Mayor alone!!
The businesses were towing vehicles— ordinance allows them to do so, when their parking is taken up by people not going into the stores. CVS, restaurants and such. Parked 3 hours and never went in the businesses— happens all over, not just at beaches, and signage ignored.
I understood that. Just posting the article for reference that the mayor is Republican. Didn’t find anything else on it in my quick search.
Wasn’t correcting you. Thanks for the post. The mayor was helping businesses. As a spectator, would love to know who Melvyn Chang was/is. Indialantic has some high end dwellers, some connex to space industries like.. SpaceX, etc. up in N. Brevard County.
“As a spectator, would love to know who Melvyn Chang was/is.”
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Me too and to know why he was apparently taunting the Mayor.
He’s got to be related to Jackie Gleason.
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