A newly elected mayor was filmed fighting with a taxi driver in the street in a horrifying road rage incident.
In the viral video footage, Councillor Shahzad Abbas Malik who is the Mayor of Crawley is seen brawling with a taxi driver in the middle of the road.
The Mayor who is a dad-of-three and also a part-time cabbie is seen in the video wrestling on the ground with another driver before brutally punching him in the head. Per some reports, the pair of drivers had stopped at the Tushmore Roundabout in Crawley town center before jumping out of their cars.
More so, according to cops, the other man suffered injuries to his arms and head and was also knocked unconscious by the Mayor.
It is believed the brawl broke out after the other driver tried to cut into his lane, a witness said.
“The cabbie tried to cut across his [Mayor Shahzad] lane, and they wound down each other’s windows before they started screaming at each other. It just escalated from there, nobody wanted to get involved because it looked personal.
“He was going for it, it looked like they knew each other, but it was all because the other bloke tried to cut him up at the roundabout. It didn’t last long and they just got back into their cabs and drove off, screaming at each other in the end.
“You just can’t be fighting like a hooligan one week and then attending a children’s football event the next week and be presented as a role model”.
Witness
Another source said: “After his behavior and acting like that, he will be lucky if he keeps his job; he must be made to step down”.
Meanwhile, the Mayor who was only elected in June has not been suspended from his post, and the Labour lead council is yet to comment on the video.
Council calls Mayor to step down
Councillor Duncan Crow, leader of the Conservative group at the council reacting to the unfortunate incident said: “The Mayor’s position is untenable and he has to resign.
“Everyone in Crawley knows it’s him in the video and the behavior he displayed at one of Crawley’s busiest roundabouts is wholly incompatible with being our Mayor, a role where one should lead by example.
“You were just given a position recently and the next day you are on the streets fighting like a hooligan. This can’t be expected, he has to resign. This has been dragging on for too long and if the Crawley Labor Group of Councilors won’t act to remove him, then Keir Starmer needs to step in”.
Councillor Duncan Crow
Meanwhile, it is reported that the Mayor continued to carry out his duties and attended a children’s football open day.
Mr. Abbas Malik was announced as the new Mayor of Crawley at the end of May and has been a local Labour councilor since 2018.
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