The bicyclist who was called a “jackass, loser, fat-tire biker” by Chris Cuomo in a radio rant filed a police report against the CNN anchor.
Cuomo expressed doubt about his job as a television anchor on Monday, partially because he wants to be able to fire back at those who confront him.
“I want to be able to tell you to go to hell, to shut your mouth … I don’t get that doing what I do for a living: me being able to tell you to shut your mouth or I will do you the way you guys do each other,” he said on his SiriusXM show. “I don’t want some jackass, loser, fat-tire biker to be able to pull over and get in my face and in my space and talk bullshit to me. I don’t want to hear it.”
On Tuesday, a man who identified himself only as Dave told the New York Post he was the biker Cuomo was ranting about. He said he filed a police report with the East Hampton, New York, police after being threatened by the anchor.
“Sometimes, he’s scary stupid,” Dave, a 65-year-old who has lived in East Hampton for most of his life, said of Cuomo.
He explained that he spotted Cuomo and his family playing on Easter Sunday in the yard of a property on which the couple is building a home. The home is not completed, and Cuomo, who tested positive for the coronavirus, was said to have been quarantining in his Southampton, New York, home. Dave confronted Cuomo about leaving Southampton while sick.
“I just looked and said, ‘Is that Chris Cuomo? Isn’t he supposed to be quarantined?’” Dave explained, later adding, “I said to him, ‘Your brother is the coronavirus czar, and you’re not even following his rules — unnecessary travel.'”
According to Dave, Cuomo allegedly responded, “‘Who the hell are you?! I can do what I want!’ He just ranted, screaming, ‘I’ll find out who you are!’”
Dave claimed that Cuomo threatened him, saying, “He said, ‘This is not the end of this. You’ll deal with this later. We will meet again.’ If that’s not a threat, I don’t know what is.”
The cyclist decided to file a police report about the incident. He noted that he did not want to file charges against the CNN host but wanted documentation of the incident in case he gets “any more feeling that this guy’s a threat to me.”
“I hate bullies,” Dave added.
