A man who claimed Google was “trying to torture him” crashed his car into a building near the company’s headquarters in New York City on Tuesday, injuring a 12-year-old girl and two women.
Jason Bitton, 34, lost control of his white Ford Fusion and pulled onto the sidewalk near the intersection of 15th Street and 10th Avenue around 6 p.m. Tuesday.
The man crashed into a glass structure about two blocks from Google’s Chelsea Market, hitting three pedestrians.
A cardboard sign reading “Google tortured me” was found next to his vehicle, along with a gas canister and a video of a pill bottle made by FREEDOM NEWS TV shows.
Bitton has claimed for years that the tech giant abused him by using sudden bright flashes on all of its electronic devices. to post show on Facebook.
A man who claimed Google was “trying to torture” him crashed his car into a building near the company’s headquarters in New York City on Tuesday, injuring a 12-year-old girl and two women
Jason Bitton (pictured) lost control of his white Ford Fusion and pulled onto the sidewalk at the intersection of 15th Street and 10th Avenue around 6 p.m. Tuesday
A cardboard sign reading “Google tortured me” was found near his vehicle, along with a gas canister and a video of a pill bottle taken by FREEDOMNEWS TV shows
After the crash, the young girl and two women — ages 47 and 50 — were taken to Lenox Health Greenwich Village in stable condition.
It is not known whether the three people know each other or are related.
Photos and video show the Ford Fusion on the sidewalk, crashing into the glass portion of a building on the corner of the Manhattan intersection.
Nearby next to the multi-colored cardboard sign that said Google had “tortured” him were several bottles of Crest mouthwash and items of clothing.
Bitton was arrested nearby and charged with three counts of attempted assault, police said.
He is also charged with reckless endangerment and attempted reckless driving. His arraignment is currently pending.
Photos and video show the Ford Fusion on the sidewalk, crashing into the glass portion of a building on the corner of the Manhattan intersection
Nearby next to the multi-colored cardboard sign that said Google had “tortured” him were several bottles of Crest mouthwash and items of clothing
Police cordoned off the crime scene for hours to investigate the accident
Google headquarters in Chelsea, just two blocks from where the crash happened
Posts on Bitton’s personal Facebook page shed light on his mental state over the past few years.
He has long accused the tech giant of torturing him, resulting in psychological pain.
“I think Google is okay with torturing anyone across its entire Android OS ecosystem, no security updates for almost 4 years,” he wrote in 2021.
He has also repeatedly accused Google of “news censorship.”
In other photos and videos, Bitton entered the police station to attempt to report the company for alleged cybercrime.
“America has fallen,” he wrote after police reportedly said they couldn’t help.
“The Constitution is undermined by Big Tech. NYC Bureau Office [sic] is focused on using AI in wrong places, especially social control, why look around,” he wrote.
Court records show that in 2019, the man filed a lawsuit against Google in the Brooklyn Supreme Court.
At the time, he claimed they had “secret access to injure and harass him.”
Bitton has long accused the tech giant of torturing him, resulting in psychological pain. In the photo: a Facebook post from December 2021
He has also repeatedly accused Google of “news censorship” in Facebook posts
The complaint also stated that Bitton had been “diagnosed with extreme photophobia,” an extreme sensitivity to light.
It says he made “several visits to the hospital for debilitating headaches, eye pain, spinal and body pain” due to Google’s alleged “torture.”
Bitton’s court requests were ultimately denied.
“While the court sympathizes with Mr. Bitton’s lingering injuries and physical ailments, it simply cannot file his complaints as they stand,” a suit reads.