The Philadelphia Police Department busted 27-year-old Jacqueline McBride for a spitting incident at a high-end Italian market in Philadelphia.
Police said that a woman had a dispute with a Di Bruno Bros. employee at the Rittenhouse Square location on Saturday. According to police, the dispute was over how she wanted to pay for an item in the store. She allegedly spat on the employee amid the dispute.
On Sunday, the same woman went back to Di Bruno Bros., where she bumped into another customer. Words were exchanged. And then she allegedly pulled down her bandana from her face and told the other customer, “B___h, I don’t have the virus.” And then she spat in the customer’s face and ran off.
Fortunately, Danilo was wearing a mask and gloves at the time, and people helped her wash her face to “get the spit off” right away, she said.
According to the Philadelphia Police Department, the office of Philadelphia district attorney Larry Krasner has approved charges against McBride of simple assault, terroristic threats and harassment.
Alexis Danito, the customer that McBride allegedly spat on said “as far as what happens to her next, I just really want to make sure that she knows that she should never do this again,. I’m okay. I wasn’t hurt or anything. But you can’t go walking around doing this to people.”
According to court records, McBride was arrested by Philadelphia police on April 8th and charged with theft and receiving stolen property. In 2014, she pleaded guilty to retail theft in Susquehanna County.
Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney called the incident “unconscionable and criminal” Thursday afternoon.
We hope the police find her and get her someplace she can’t spit on anybody,” Kenney said. “I think people start losing their minds a little bit and it’s understandable, but that’s an assault. It’s aggravated assault to knowingly do that to make people ill, intentionally.”
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