A woman at a San Diego dog park is accused of spraying pepper on a couple for not wearing masks during an incident last week that was partially captured on video.
The video posted on Facebook by Ash Sherilynn O’Brien shows a woman with a dog waving a black object on a man’s face. “What are you doing? You can’t be serious, you just … just smashed him,” someone yells.
O’Brien wrote on Facebook that she and her husband were having lunch with their dog at Dusty Rhodes Dog Park when the woman started to give them the middle finger and called them idiots for not having their masks on.
O’Brien said the woman aimed the pepper spray at her first, but she only gave it a little and then sprayed her husband. “That’s me crying hysterically deep down because my innocent husband was killed for no reason,” O’Brien said of the video.
Efforts to reach O’Brien were unsuccessful on Monday.
A San Diego Police Department report shared with NBC News said that on July 23 at approximately 3 pm, an unknown white woman approached a man and began “yelling at him for not wearing a mask and eating food in the park. “
“The unknown woman sprayed an unknown substance on the victim’s face and left the park. The victim suffered from redness, burning and irritation to the face and eyes, as well as blurred vision,” the report said.
Both California and San Diego require masks in public, but should be worn outdoors only “when it is not feasible to maintain a physical distance of 6 feet from people who are not members of the same household or residence.”
