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The salon owner reportedly hit a lock code compliance officer with her car in a Fresno Target parking lot last week.
The salon owner reportedly hit a lock code compliance officer with her car in a Fresno Target parking lot last week.
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The salon owner reportedly hit a lock code compliance officer with her car in a Fresno Target parking lot last week.
The salon owner reportedly hit a lock code compliance officer with her car in a Fresno Target parking lot last week.
Photo: Smith Collection / Gado / Gado Via Getty Images
After telling a Fresno lock code enforcement officer that “someone should put a bullet to your brain” in a Target parking lot, the salon owner hit him with his car, reports Fresno Bee.
The woman was reportedly upset after receiving two coronavirus shutdown notices.
“For you. F— Mayor Brand. F— Newsom. F— all of you. Find something better to do. I hope you all die. Someone should put a bullet in your brain,” the woman yelled, according to an email from an officer. police obtained by the bee.
The email indicated that two code enforcement officers responded to complaints last Friday about businesses that violated state coronavirus orders when they stopped just before 11 a.m. at Target avenues in Bullard and Blackstone in Fresno.
When one of the officers returned to her vehicle, a woman in the parking lot started yelling profanity at her, which the code compliance officer reportedly waved at her and replied, “Keep him classy.”
According to the police incident report, when the officer pulled out his phone and stood behind the woman’s car to take a photo of her license plate, she reversed her car and hit him. He was not seriously injured, reports the bee.
The woman initially denied having beaten the officer but later “apologized profusely” when speaking to police, the email says. She was not arrested.
After months of closure, beauty salons briefly reopened in Fresno County in June until Governor Gavin Newsom withdrew the reopens in response to an increase in coronavirus infections.
The code compliance officer later recognized the woman as the owner of an unnamed salon who previously received two notices of code compliance.
Sgt. Jeff LaBlue, the Fresno Police public information officer, told Bee that the case will be forwarded to the Fresno County District Attorney’s Office on possible assault charges.
Andrew Chamings is editor of SFGATE. Email: [email protected] | Twitter: @AndrewChamings
