Ahhh yes, the age of Trump:
A woman says she was harassed by a man over the shirt she wore to an Illinois park and the confrontation was caught on video.
Mia Irizarry said she was at Forest Preserves of Cook County for a birthday party last month when the man walked up to her, telling her she shouldn’t wear a shirt that showed the Puerto Rican flag,
CBS News reported.
She had asked the man, and the group he was in, to move from the pavilion that her family had rented for a party,
CNN reported.
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The video, which runs 36 minutes and is filled with profanity, had been posted to social media where it has more than 1.4 million
views on Facebook.
The man, who was later identified as Timothy Trybus,
according tot he Chicago Sun Times, can be heard on the video asking Irizarry if she was a U.S. citizen and saying that she should not wear the Puerto Rican flag shirt in America.
Irizarry and her family members explained to Trybus that Puerto Rico is an American territory, but Trybus continued to argue with her
Irizarry asked a nearby officer for help, telling him that she was not comfortable with Trybus’ confrontation. But the officer did not respond when Irizzary asked for help. The officer was identified as Patrick Connor, who has been on the police force for a decade,
the Sun Times reported. He is currently on desk duty while his response to the incident is investigated.
Eventually another officer steps in and asks Trybus for his identification and tells him he is drunk. He responds to the officer, telling her, "Well, that’s your judgement." The office warns him that he cannot harass people and that he doesn’t belong at the park while drunk,
CNN reported.
Eventually, the first officer, Connor, documented what happened, but said that Irizzary was not being attacked. He did acknowledge that she felt threatened,
CNN reported.
Trybus was arrested and charged with assault and disorderly conduct,
CBS News reported.
Puerto Rico’s governor, Ricardo Rossello, has spoken out about the video, posting on Twitter, "I am appalled, shocked & disturbed by the officer’s behavior."