Marc Dione, a 22-year-old Lyft driver, was caught on camera grabbing a dog out of a car and throwing it into a street during a road-rage fight in New Jersey. Dione is now facing charges of animal cruelty.
Dione, 22, of Montclair, New Jersey, was identified as the man who seen on video allegedly grabbing the dog and throwing it out onto the sidewalk.
The New Jersey SPCA Humane Police have now filed criminal and civil animal cruelty charges against him.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rd655ucmyJA
via CBS:
Gary and Linda Kaey claim Dionne had been weaving in and out of traffic on Bloomfield Avenue in Montclair for a half-mile before getting stuck at a bus stop and getting out of his car in a rage.
“He was upset about the stopping bus in front of him, jumped out on our hood, stomped on the hood,” Linda said.
That’s when another driver started recording Kaey and Dionne out in the road throwing punches before Kaey headed back to his mini-van. Dionne can then be seen reaching into the passenger’s side of the van, grabbing Kaey’s 12-year-old dog Daphna, and flinging her nearly 30 ft in the air.
“Obviously he couldn’t get the best of me, so he chose to take an innocent animal and try to hurt me with that,” Kaey said.
After the video began to go viral, the NJSPCA began investigating the incident. In the clip, Dione could be seen reaching into the backseat of the Kaey’s car to pick up his 12-year-old miniature pinscher, Daphne.
‘Despite some bruises and stress resulting from this traumatic event, Daphne is recovering well,’ the NJSPCA said in a statement.
Lyft released a statement condemning Dione’s actions:
“We are shocked and horrified by what we saw in this video,” a Lyft spokeswoman said. “While this did not happen on the Lyft platform, we permanently deactivated the individual after learning of his truly cruel behavior; he will never again be able to use Lyft. We are relieved to hear that Daphne is recovering well.”
In light of the video, Lyft permanently deactivated the account Dione.
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