A group of New York construction workers at a site found their work mildly interrupted when a Jewish man approached them and attempted to sabotage their work. He was caught pushing a wooden construction barrier, even removing a portion of it, and recording each of the workers, for a reason still unknown.
Footage of the incident was shared online by one of the construction workers, Melvin Cano Jutiapa. He often posts clips of construction sites, and the clip above wasn’t the exception. The anger aspect of it, however, made the video go viral in a matter of days. It garnered 6.4 million views, 260,500 likes, and more than 12,200 comments.
The New York man began recording what was going down at the construction site. At least four men, including Melvin, were standing at the site while pouring concrete. To their right, a wooden protective barrier separating the site from what was an alley was placed.
On the other side of the barrier was a Jewish man wearing a kippah and payot, or sidelocks, the traditional look for Orthodox or Hasidic Jewish men. He was recorded pushing on the several wooden planks that made up the barrier. The man also yelled at the workers to “get out of the way.”
While the man continued to walk back and forth, pushing on the barrier, the construction workers continued pouring concrete. Eventually, however, the Jewish man managed to remove a good chunk of the protective barrier. He then started recording each of the construction workers with his cellphone.
The video went on for minutes, featuring the man continuing in his attempt to bring down the barrier separating him from the construction site.
Reactions
This incident sparked many responses, some from viewers who were genuinely confused by what was going on. One asked, “Why is he being so weird?!” Another one said, “I would have called the cops and had him arrested for destruction of property and trespassing!“
Others decided to quip in the comments, making fun of the Jewish man. One wrote, “It’s blocking the tunnel entrance.” Another one commented, “Concrete is anti-cementic?“
It is unclear what came out of the interaction. By the looks of it, the Jewish man was probably a neighbor who was inconvenienced by the construction site and the noise.
