
A mother and daughter in Queens, New York apologized for attacking a black woman during a dispute over a parking spot. Cell phone video captured on July 7 shows Andree Dumitru and her daughter, Sabrina Starman, arguing with Pace University student Jada McPherson over a parking spot in front of their apartment building.
Starman and McPherson exchanged insults during the verbal dispute when she parked in the spot.
Dumitru, 45, called McPherson a “monkey,” while McPherson referred to mother and daughter as “immigrants.”
Starman, 21, is heard calling McPherson “a f–king slave b-tch. You’re a slave for what it’s worth.”

The video shows Starman attack McPherson, grabbing her hair and yanking her to the ground. Dumitru and a male friend jumped in and punched and kicked McPherson while she was on the ground.
After the brawl ended, McPherson called police who arrested Dumitru and Starman. They were charged with assault and harassment, according to the NY Post.
They were released without posting bond. The unidentified man who joined in the attack fled the scene before police arrived.
A neighbor told the NY Post that Dumitru and Starman often placed cones to reserve the parking spot in front of their building.
The video went viral, and Dumitru and Starman say they fear for their lives.
“I have hundreds of calls death-threatening me, telling me how they’re going to come,” Dumitru said in an interview. “I never in my life has experienced such trauma. And not only that, I have my little one and I have appointments and I have surgeries coming up. I have a dog. My mom is older.”
Mother with her transformer daughter, and another man viciously attacked a woman over a parking spot in NYC. pic.twitter.com/SxIyb32xEz
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According to Dumitru, one caller said: “You ready to die? Because I’m ready to kill you and your peoples. You will be seeing me shortly. Mark my words, I am going to murder ALL OF YOU.”
Dumitru and Starman apologized to McPherson during the interview. “I regret that was very wrong of me to do,” said Dumitru. “It wasn’t right… I regret it. But to get humiliated and mentally abused for 45 minutes. Her calling me names and provoking the situation.”
McPherson isn’t ready to accept their apologies.
“I don’t think it’s from their hearts, like deep down,” she said. “But I just hope they could see or see what they did wrong and kind of get a better understanding of how to operate or act in certain situations from this situation.”
Queens mom and daughter explain physical and verbal assault on student during parking spot brawl https://t.co/FJTw6Kd6k0 pic.twitter.com/pbR4QZCUYr
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