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Migrants brawl with boxing gloves in ‘fight club’ near NYC shelter — with onlookers egging them on

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February 25, 2024

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A parking lot near a Queens shelter has turned into a violent scene ripped straight out of the film “Fight Club” — with migrants brawling on camera as bloodthirsty onlookers bet on the bouts, The Post has learned.

For at least a month, migrants living in a nearby La Quinta Inn shelter on Queens Boulevard in Long Island City have slipped on boxing gloves to pound each other to oblivion in a McDonald’s parking lot across the street, according to footage of the wild scene and an area worker who has witnessed several brawls.

“Hit him, hit him!” one spectator urged in Spanish as wiry migrants threw wild hooks and haymakers at each other in broad daylight, a Feb. 17 clip posted on the Instagram account New York S—ty showed.

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