Rant by mayor's aide ignites debate about trash in Jersey City

JERSEY CITY (WABC) -- A profanity-laced rant by a member of the mayor's team in Jersey City was caught on camera.

The two-minute tirade first appeared on Facebook and has an entire community talking.

The research assistant from Mayor Steve Fulop's office was caught yelling about the garbage outside her home in Jersey City.

She even made an obscene gesture with her middle finger.

Brooke Hansson's You Tube tirade has led to a Bostwick Avenue conversation about filth on the street.

"She said some stuff that wasn't appropriate, but everybody needs to take a stand like that. Everybody needs to clean up their own backyards where they live at," said Jersey City resident Gregory White.

"Self-respect, do not live in garbage!", Hansson is heard yelling on the video.

While her comments include a lot of foul language, people got the message and she has support.

So far Hansson's outburst has not been detrimental to her job status working for the mayor. Residents of Bostwick Avenue say she is bold and tired of all the litter.

"I support that she believes in what she stands for, she lives there so she has a right to speak her mind," one resident said

While the area in front of Hansson's home on the corner of Martin Luther King Jr. Drive and Bostwick Avenue is fairly clean, it's not hard to find a landfill of trash close by littered with liquor containers and garbage.

"A lot of times it's bad, people just throw garbage on the floor so I just come through and clean up, this is my mother's block. Got to make it look presentable," a resident said.

Hansson's filthy mouth frustrations happened after arriving home one evening. But even a man of the cloth sticks by her and her emotions because she cares about her block.

"The feelings that are pregnant within us give rise to expression. Sometimes they are curse words," he said.