1
3
ANDRE Cadiz was having lunch outside of Dollar Hits in Los Angeles’ Historic Filipinotown on Saturday, April 3 when he heard a man yelling incoherently.
The 26-year-old Filipino American graphic designer, who was sitting facing the restaurant with his back toward the strip mall’s parking lot, chose to ignore the remarks and kept eating.
Then, he heard a loud bang on the window in front of where he was sitting.
A rock that was allegedly thrown by the man narrowly missed Cadiz’s head, he said in an interview.
“I jumped out of my seat and then I realized this guy in the parking lot was in a stance that looked like he just threw something,” Cadiz, who was dining alone with his dog at around 4 p.m., told the Asian Journal. “There was a mark on the window and I’m like, ‘Oh my God, that was a rock that went over my head.”
His first instinct was to pull out his phone to record a video, in which he confronts the man and asks him, “What the (expletive), bro?”
The man, who Cadiz said was holding another rock and a pair of scissors, can be heard on the video daring restaurant staff to “come outside” and “call the cops.”
During the exchange, Cadiz alleged that the man threw another object, which could have been a small black rock or piece of charcoal that landed on the table where he had been sitting.
Some witnesses are heard on camera telling the man to stay put in the parking lot, but he then walked away.