Social distancing tensions boiled over at a high end Italian market in Philadelphia, where police say a woman spit on a customer and an employee in two separate incidents.
According to The Philadelphia Inquirer, Jacqueline, 27, was taken into custody earlier in the week. One of the people involved, a 36 year old customer named Alexis, told the paper she was waiting in line to enter the market when a woman got very close to her, and she stepped back to keep the six foot distance. Alexis said that upset the woman.
Alexis told the Inquirer she went into the store and was shopping for dinner when the woman allegedly ran into her on purpose. When Alexis said the behavior was rude during a pandemic, she says the woman answered that she would fight her, then pulled down the bandanna covering her mouth and spit in her face.
A store manager who saw what happened told Alexis the same woman had come into the store on Saturday and spit at an employee after an argument. Police confirmed the earlier incident, according to the report.
Jacqueline was charged with simple assault, terroristic threats and harassment. The Inquirer report did not include a response from her or an attorney, and the charges have not been proven in court.
Alexis said she was glad police responded quickly. “You should never be spitting on anybody,” she said, adding that it is even more serious during a pandemic.
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