Emilia Holden and her tattoo.
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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(#MeToo)
And she’s NOT GUILTY.
DANG!
Why didn’t he just get up and leave? Did the customers hold him down?
“Democracy dies in darkness.” Really? What a farce. Nothing is mentioned concerning truth, objectiveness, and real journalism. Democracy? We are a Republic and the Compost is a main culprit in killing it.
If the genders were reversed who would be high-fiving the guy waiter?
She can’t even keep her eyes open during the interview. Looks like another Hillbilly Heroin addict if you ask me.
The perp: Bill Clinton, Harvey Weinstein, Anthony Weiner or Matt Lauer?
LESBO CoWorker would be OK. Male customer not so much!
What did the perp do?
Dude got owned..
Yes, he did. LOL!
Good.
She is there to serve the customers food, not to tolerate physical abuse from customers.
Ms. Holden said that other servers and cooks from the kitchen surrounded Mr. Cherwinski so he could not leave until the police came. She had been nervous he might be let go, but once the police arrived and saw the video, he was handcuffed and taken away, she said.
Actions have consequences. :)
The man has terrible taste.
You mean she didn’t run to her lawyer and demand justice?
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