Queens Man Rips Up Black Lives Matter Sign, Admits He Is Racist; Twitter Users Dox Him

A Queens man has created a furore on social media after he was caught on camera tearing down a Black Lives Matter sign and calling his neighborhood a “white town.” He was also seen delivering homophobic comments and slurs in the video.

The video was shared on Twitter, and more than a dozen users identified the person as Anthony Abicca. International Business Times could not independently verify his name.

The video in question appeared to show the person confronting Black Lives Matter demonstrators in Whitestone this week and even admitting that he is racist. “Why are you doing that?” one protestor asked as he pulled down the sign hung on a highway overpass. “I don’t want you f–kers in my f–king town,” he was heard replying in the video. One of the activists, who is not visible on the video, then calls him a racist, to which he replies affirmatively: “Yea, and?”

Some said on Twitter they had attended school with him and shared his yearbook photos, New York Post reported. Some who claimed to be his former classmates said he had a history of spewing racist venom.

The same person was also seen delivering a racist tirade in another clip posted to his Snapchat account Tuesday (June 2). The clip was shared on Twitter thereafter.

“Today’s episode is going to be on direct action,” he was heard telling a man who walked next to him.

“If you live in a nice town like I do, well it’s not that, it’s not that nice, but say you live in a nice little white town like Whitestone, right? And you see some obese… probably half-s–c, half-white with some n—r mixed in, he’s putting up Black Lives Matter signs on your f–king overpass, you can’t have that s–t in Whitestone,” Abicca went on to say, referring the confrontation that he earlier had with the protesters. “So you know you pass by, you call ‘em dirty n—er lovers and f—-ts and sh-t.”

Warning to readers: graphic language in video.

Activists came back to the spot where the torn sign had hung Tuesday and replaced that with a new one.

Some on Twitter urged the City College of New York, where Abicca is reportedly a student, to take action against him, copies of emails posted on Twitter showed.

The college tweeted in response that he has been identified as a former student and that his remarks do not represent the college: "Thank you for bringing this to our attention and for your concern. The individual in the video has been identified as a former student. This individual’s remarks and behavior do not represent CCNY and CUNY."

Incidentally, this was not the only incident where signs put up by Black Lives Matter activists were pulled down. Here are a couple more.