Posted on 08/01/2018 9:15:50 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
It was about 11 p.m., an hour before the end of Emelia Holden’s waitress shift late last month, when she felt the hand grab her backside.
Holden, 21, had just finished taking a customer’s order and placing a stack of menus on an unoccupied table in the small restaurant, Vinnie Van Go-Go’s pizzeria in Savannah, Ga.
At first she thought it might have been her female co-worker, she recalled to local CBS affiliate WTOC. But as she turned around, she saw that it was a customer walking past her, a 31-year-old man police later identified as Ryan Cherwinski of Palm Bay, Fla.
“I was like nope, that’s not going to happen,” Holden told WTOC.
It was an experience common for many women in the service industry. But Holden wasn’t having it.
What happened next was captured by the restaurant’s surveillance footage and circulated widely online during the past weekend:
The man takes no more than three steps past Holden before the petite waitress is seen grabbing him by the shirt collar, yanking him backward and hurling him against the wall. As he falls to the ground, Holden is seen pointing a finger at him. The entire time, the video shows, Holden never lets go of the notepad in her left hand.
“It felt a lot longer than it was, but then watching it I realized how quickly I reacted to it,” Holden told WTOC. “I’m 115 pounds. … I didn’t know I could do that.” Cherwinski weighs 175 pounds, the station reported, citing a police report.
Holden asked a co-worker to call the police. After speaking to Holden and watching the surveillance footage, the Savannah Police Department arrested Cherwinski, took him into custody and charged him with sexual battery, a police spokeswoman told the Savannah Morning News.
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This is not pc but I don’t care....
....the wait staff is encouraged/instructed to dress provocatively ......look at the video......the man reacts ....he’s arrested
How many stupid ‘girls night out movies’ are made where they think nothing of ogling guys or grabbing their buns!....no arrests there
Not an even playing field
Good for her!
She cut out the middleman. I like that.
You can look, but you can’t touch . . .
Good. That turned out right. Some people are asking about what should be done if a man is treated that way. Well, if he gets mashed on by a hawg and wants to press the charge, sure. The cops should do their job either way. But yeah, it’s understandably scarier for women in most cases. No explanation necessary.
Unfortunately many people are such idiots today that you might need to, but I agree. Just the difference in weights should be enough for people to understand why,
Wearing almost nothing but a tattoo.
And THAT is how its handled
Bet the jerk never does that again
Creepy perv
Are you on the same thread as the rest of us?
Keep your hands to yourself. Even strip clubs enforce the hat
Obviously whatever manners your mother tried to teach you didn’t take
And so?
Hooters made a brand of it
You don’t get to do that just because you are thrilled
When I was younger, that would have been considered an overreaction. What she did seems like more of an assault than what he did.
He’s just talking about the WaPost’s Goth-@$$ slogan.
No one asked you.
But from your take on her “appearance” it was OK to grab her ass while leaving the rest ?
Think we know who the frigen hillbilly is !
good for her! Don’t touch people unless you are invited to do so. ( Not in your imagination though)
“When I was younger, that would have been considered an overreaction. What she did seems like more of an assault than what he did.”
When “I” was younger, it would have taken a few weeks for his voice to return to normal.
A very pretty woman. Sounds like she can defend herself. Must have been the andrenaline.
“She can’t even keep her eyes open during the interview. Looks like another Hillbilly Heroin addict if you ask me”
That little “Hillbilly Heroin addict” just may reduce your reproduction status to zero. If you don’t have permission, don’t touch.
Maybe her backside looked better than her frontside.
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