A Trump-supporting dad and son clashed with voters outside a polling station – threatening to put one ‘in hospital’.
The altercation took place outside a school in Park Slope, Brooklyn as residents queued up to cast their vote in the 2020 presidential election.
Videos were posted online of the incident, which took place at around 10am.
Eric Nocera, 50, claims when he took his son to the polling station voters started making comments because of the Trump flags on his car.
Although there is no video of the start of the clash, Mr Nocera is heard in later footage telling someone he would put him ‘in the hospital’.
‘Get the f**k out of my face,’ he warned.
The New York Times reported he also told the man to ‘go get some Vagisil’.
‘Go get some! ‘Cause I know it’s itchy and it’s hurting,’ he added.
The other man, who has not yet been named, responded: ‘Oh, you wanna grab my p***y, is that what you’re saying? Come grab my p***y. Come grab my f*****g p***y, you punk-ass b***h.’
Mr Nocera snapped back: ‘Little gay boy, go away,’ before telling his son to ‘leave the cuck alone’ – which is a reference to the right-wing meme of calling political opponents cuckolds.
The man replied: ‘Oh, now I’m a cock or a vag? Which is it? You can’t figure it out because you don’t know the difference because you’re the f*****g gay boy m**********r.’
That’s when Mr Nocera tells the man to ‘say it to my face’, before shouting, ‘I’ll put you in the hospital.’
Several police officers were seen in the footage, with one reassuring the unidentified man: ‘Nothing is going to happen to you.’
Resident Kathy Park Price, 46, who filmed the incident, is heard saying Mr Nocera was ‘threatening physical violence’.
She told The New York Post he ‘started yelling at us’, and claimed his truck was within 100 feet of the polling site.
In New York, electioneering within 100 feet of a polling place is prohibited.
Mr Nocera told The New York Post he was more than 100ft away and he and his son were there to ‘exercise their constitutional right’.
He said: ‘I came here with my son. We were driving by — stopped here to take him to go vote, to exercise his constitutional right to cast a vote for his president.
‘They said I was to be electioneering, that I needed to be more than 100 feet away from the school, which we were.
‘A whole crowd started forming. They were giving us the middle finger. They were cursing at us.’
He claimed the other people there got ‘very upset’.
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