Mugshots for Tammy Dabney, left, 48, and Erica Dabney, 46.
(Baton Rouge Police Department)
A teenage Louisiana restaurant hostess was attacked after police said they told a large group of women they were sitting together that they could only seat six of them at a table because of coronavirus social distance measures.
It happened Sunday at a Chile’s Bar & Grill in Baton Rouge, according to the Baton Rouge Police Department.
Police said Thursday that three women who were in the group were arrested on battery charges. Two were booked into prison and released; the third received a call.
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WBRZ-TV reported Friday about the incident during interviews with the hostess, Kelsy Wallace.
“She pushed me. And when she pushed me, all I knew was to push her back. I responded,” she said. “That’s when she and her daughters, they all came. And they’re women. I’m 17 years old. They’s like, 20, 30, and the woman who drove me looked like she was 40. “
Kelsy told the station they were on her, and hit her.
“I’m standing there trying to hit them, trying to get all of me out,” she said. ‘And the woman takes her a wet floor sign and slaps it in my eye. And I had blood everywhere. ”
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Kelsy said the women were overwhelmed when they were sitting at one table at six and the others said there were still too many of them to sit at a second table so they should get the manager, according to the station.
She showed the station a bald spot where hair was pulled out. She also needed five pieces to close a wound above her eye.
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Police said the women arrested were Tammy Dabney, 48; Rodneka Dabney, 27, and Erica Dabney, 46.
