A South Seattle barista bashes a person’s windshield with a hammer, after she says he threatened her and her prospects.
Emma Lee is the proprietor and sole worker of ‘Style of Heaven Espresso.’ She is a agency believer of standing up for your self.
“At what level are we advised we’re supposed to simply look forward to it to worsen,” Lee advised KIRO 7.
She mentioned a buyer crossed the road on Tuesday, when he pulled into the drive-thru and demanded a refund over the pricing.
“Disrespect and violence are two various things. I can deal with the disrespect, the violence is sort of a onerous, that’s the place the road is crossed,” Lee defined.
Surveillance video from Lee’s store reveals the person outdoors of his automotive arguing along with her.
She mentioned prospects tried to step in and discuss the person down for about 10 minutes, however it rapidly escalated.
Within the video, the person says, ‘no one’s going to overlook you.’ Lee mentioned that’s when she felt threatened.
“Oh, okay so you haven’t any drawback harming me, you’re making that clear,” she mentioned.
The person then tossed his drinks again at Lee as she closed her drive-thru window.
“It’s one factor to yell, it’s one factor to get mad, it’s one factor to even be outdoors of your automotive and attempt to threaten me,” Lee added. “However to truly have the motion behind it, it modified issues for me the place I used to be like ‘oh no.’”
Lee determined to take issues into her personal palms with a hammer. A instrument that she carries to maintain her secure in instances of disaster.
“I personally suppose that you simply thought you had been going to throw drinks on me and damage my day, you’re going to pay for a brand new windshield and it’s going to damage your day,” she mentioned.
Even with a smashed windshield, Lee mentioned he refused to go away, and he or she had no different choice however to name the cops.
“The police got here, they usually received him to go away, proper. It was understood that what occurred is, he assaulted me, and I responded,” Lee defined.
Regardless of what anybody says, Lee believes that feminine staff, like herself, shouldn’t be afraid to guard themselves.
“I do know so many ladies that haven’t defended themselves in conditions they positively ought to’ve and will have as a result of we all know that the repercussion extra probably than not goes to fall on the lady that responds to the violence than the preliminary violence inflicted,” she mentioned.
Seattle police tells us no arrests had been made.