Southeast Queens City Council candidate attacked in Hollis

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A City Council candidate was attacked in southeast Queens Saturday as he confronted two men who were dumping trash in Hollis.

Al-Hassan Kanu was recording with his cellphone as he approached the two men at 202nd Street and 99th Avenue and asked why they were throwing trash beneath an overpass in a residential area of the neighborhood.

One of the men, who was the driver of a rental truck, can be seen on video punching Kanu multiple times in the head and his surgically repaired left shoulder before grabbing Kanu’s cellphone and throwing it to the ground as the assault continued. The two attackers jumped back in the truck and drove off. Kanu was checked out at Queens Hospital in Jamaica before reporting the assault at the 103rd Precinct.