DEKALB COUNTY, Ga. — A case of road rage was captured on video and has gone viral. The video showed a man getting out of his car and screaming racial slurs at a driver.
It happened on Interstate 285 right past the Northlake Mall exit in DeKalb County.
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A man named Avery, who didn’t want to be identified for safety reasons, said he pulled out his phone and started recording a man he said started threatening him.
“Two guys in a van started flicking me off and started screaming at me. That’s when he started threatening me to get out of the car and fight.”
Channel 2′s Larry Spruill asked how it got to that point.
“I honestly don’t know. I have no clue of me cutting him off,” said Avery.
According to the police report, this happened on August 16, on I-285 NB between Lawrenceville Highway and Lavista Road. The video showed the man getting out of the van and walking towards Avery.
Avery asked the man, ‘What does it say on your shirt?’ The man replied ‘It said F-you. You feel me?’
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He then goes back to the van and takes off what appears to be his work shirt and comes back towards Avery. The entire time, Avery said he just kept calm while still recording.
“I saw he had a work company shirt on, so I felt like we’ll get him in the end. They followed me to one exit. I swerved back on and they kept following me to the next exit. At the next exit, they actually blocked me in. The guy got out the car and kept threatening me. He called me the N-word and used racial slurs,” said Avery.
“When he said the N-word with the ‘er’ on it, that kind of blew me,” Avery said.
Avery said he remained calm because he’s getting married soon and he’s an educator.
“I felt like I did the right thing. I got to live to see another day,” said Avery.
Police are still looking for the guy in the video.
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