A white man pulled a gun on a group of black teenagers on bikes and called them ‘dumb-ass n******’ after a woman accused a youngster of riding over her foot.
The group were taking part in an unsanctioned anti-gun violence ‘wheels up, guns down’ event in Miami, Florida, yesterday.
The bicycle riders stopped traffic on the Brickell Avenue Bridge in Downtown Miami to protest a development project in a public housing complex called Liberty Square.
Video captured by a member of ‘Dream Defenders’, a Florida civil rights group formed near the beginning of the Black Lives Matter movement, shows a woman screaming at a group of youngsters on bikes.
The woman yelled that one boy ‘ran over my foot’, then a man got out of a nearby car, ran along the bridge waving a gun and walked over to the group to call them, ‘dumb-ass f****** n******’.
The man in the video marched over to a group of youngsters on bicycles after a woman claimed one biker ran over her foot
He was identified as 51-year-old Mark Allen Bartlett and was arrested and charged with carrying a concealed firearm, reports 7News.
In one video the woman can be seen begging the protesters to move their bikes, saying: ‘I have kids I need to pick up. This isn’t funny. Please move your bikes.’
Video footage posted on social media showed the older white woman screaming as she approached a young black man.
She yelled, ‘don’t touch me’, as the teen replied he did not touch her as he backed away from her.
Then another young man pulled up on a bike and the woman screamed, ‘you just ran over me’, and shoves him.
The woman screams at him repeatedly that he ran over her foot but the teenager denied it.
After the bridge confrontation the man in the pink T-shirt walked away, but turned to call the group ‘stupid n******’ again
Miami Police Department said Mark Allen Bartlett was arrested and charged with carrying a concealed firearm
As she walked away she said, ‘you just touched me, you bunch of thugs’, as a white man wearing a pink T-shirt with sunglasses in the collar, holding a pistol at his side marched towards some of the teenagers, who ran away screaming.
The man asked, ‘who did it? who did it?’, to which she replied, ‘that guy in the red,’ before then screaming, ‘you ran over my foot’.
The man then yells as he walked around the group: ‘Get the f*** out of here, you f****** losers. You f****** stupid n*****s. You’re all f****** dumb-ass f****** n*****s’.
As the man walked away he stopped to turn around and call the group ‘stupid n******’ again.
One of the riders who videoed the confrontation, called out as the couple left, ‘y’all gonna make the news’.
In another video taken after the confrontation and posted on Twitter, a member of Dream Defenders, who said one of the riders was 11 years old, added: ‘These kids are about to lose their housing.’
In video footage posted online the woman can be seen confronting the young black men, accusing one of them of running over her foot (left) before a man with a gun intervened (right)
She pointed and shouted at the youngsters before a man walked over brandishing a gun
The incident happened yesterday, on Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
Miami City Commissioner Keon Hardemon said on his Instagram page that Bartlett should face more serious charges.
He wrote: ‘Assault with a deadly weapon and calling them n—-rs sounds like a hate crime to me.
‘Someone knows him and needs to identify him. He is not a hero. He will kill someone next time if he isn’t arrested.’
The annual event, which police said is unsanctioned by authorities, has taken place across South Florida in previous years over the Martin Luther King Jr. Day weekend to protest gun violence.
In unrelated incidents police handed out traffic tickets, arrested more than a dozen people and seized ATVs, which are not allowed to be driven on city streets.
The Miami Police Department said Bartlett was being held last night on a $5,000 bond.