wild video shared online.<\/a><\/p>\nRodriguez was flung to the ground after getting caught in the open door.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Miami-Dade police are searching for two women who pepper-sprayed and dragged Felyz Rodriguez and Davin Lopez with a car after a road dispute. NBC Miami<\/p>\n
The couple have since claimed tempers flared following a road rage incident.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey were like, guys, get out of the road, idiots,\u201d Lopez said, explaining what led up to the attack.<\/p>\n
Lopez admitted he made a \u201chand gesture\u201d toward the car after they yelled, which prompted the driver to abruptly turn around and race back toward them.<\/p>\n
Rodriguez started recording on her phone, and Lopez can be seen walking in front of her, asking \u201cwhy the f\u2013k y\u2019all bothering us,\u201d at the duo in the car. <\/p>\n
The couple then said the two women jumped out of the vehicle and launched their attack.<\/p>\n
\u201cNext thing you know, one gets out and starts pepper spraying me,\u201d Lopez said.<\/p>\n
The couple said they were walking to work in northwest Miami-Dade on Sunday night when they briefly stepped into the road, and the women sped past in a car yelling at them to get out of the way. NBC Miami<\/p>\n
The pepper spray can be heard being released from its canister as Rodriguez recorded the car\u2019s license plate.<\/p>\n
Another video recorded by a nearby resident shows the violent altercation unfolding on the corner of the road.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere is a girl in a car trying to run over a guy at the corner of my house,\u201d the resident can be heard telling authorities on the phone.<\/p>\n
Rodriguez revealed she didn\u2019t want to make the situation worse \u2013 despite having her hair pulled.<\/p>\n
A video showed the car parked diagonally on the grass and a suspect, identified as the driver \u2014 wearing green shorts, a white tank top and a blue bonnet, and barefoot \u2014 yanked Rodriguez by the hair. NBC Miami<\/p>\n
Lopez said at the start of the attack, one of the women pepper sprayed him. NBC Miami<\/p>\n
\u201cShe yanks me, I\u2019m trying my best to not put my hands on anybody because, instead, of trying to make it worse I\u2019m trying to de-escalate it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Rodriguez said as she was being assaulted by the one suspect at the open driver\u2019s side door of the car, the other hopped into the driver\u2019s seat and reversed.<\/p>\n
Video shows Rodriguez getting caught in the open door and flung to the ground.<\/p>\n
\u201cOh my god! Oh my god!\u201d the resident recording yells out in fear after watching the driver reverse into Rodriguez.<\/p>\n
Rodriguez said that she was being assaulted by one suspect at the open driver\u2019s side door of the car, the other hopped into the driver\u2019s seat and reversed into her. NBC Miami<\/p>\n
Investigators said Rodriguez and Lopez were left with bruises, cuts and swelling while the brazen attackers fled the scene. <\/p>\n
\u201cIt was all unprovoked; we\u2019re just walking,\u201d Rodriguez said.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s just sad, honestly, just thinking about it, it confuses me, I\u2019m confused, I\u2019m distraught, I\u2019m just traumatized at this point honestly.\u201d<\/p>\n
Rodriguez questioned whether the attack was a \u201chate crime.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIs it a hate crime, is it something personal, or is it simply you have nothing to do?\u201d Rodriguez told the outlet.<\/p>\n
Lopez wrote on Facebook<\/a> Monday that \u201chopefully they are able to catch these females for causing us distress and emotional\/physical damage.\u201d<\/p>\n\u201cPeople like this who think it\u2019s okay to just antagonize, provoke and ATTACK ANYONE just out of boredom should pay serious consequences\u2026 and we gonna make sure of it,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Florida couple claimed they were allegedly attacked and pepper-sprayed by two women who were upset that they…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":408045,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[12896,15289,265,28,30,29,123,4278,15698],"class_list":["post-408044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-assaults","tag-attacks","tag-crime","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-miami","tag-us-news","tag-viral-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=408044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408044\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/408045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=408044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=408044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=408044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}