MIAMI — Video shows a man forcefully shoving a bartender at the Hard Rock Cafe at downtown Miami’s Bayside Marketplace over the weekend. Police were still looking for him as of Wednesday.
The bartender, who asked to remain anonymous, told Local 10 News over the phone that she had asked the man to stop snacking on drink garnishes in an employee-only area.
“I look over and say, ‘Hey, these are drink garnishes. You can’t have your hands in there’ and he was like ‘what do you want me to do, b----? Spit it out?,’” she said. “I said, ‘You can finish what you have in your hand, but please, I can’t have you in this area.’”
She said she reported the man’s behavior to her manager and at some point he stepped away from the bar. But 30 minutes later, video shows the man returning, approaching the bartender and shoving her to the ground.
“He took his hand, both hands, and from my collar bone area, my neck, and shoved me down to the floor,” the victim said. “I literally flew back and hit the rack with my head.”
He stormed away but she grabbed her phone and took photos. He knocked it out of her hand.
“He shoved me somewhere near my jaw or my face,” she said. “At one point my tooth is chipped.”
The victim said she hopes police are able to find him.
“I’m really upset about this whole thing,” she said. “It’s very jarring. It’s never happened to me before.”
Anyone with information is asked to call Miami police or Miami-Dade Crime Stoppers at 305-471-8477.
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