{"id":46635,"date":"2019-11-13T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-11-13T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/duplicate-3504444.findlaw4.flsitebuilder.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/aggravated-assault-charge-after-body-slam-at-tennessee-popeyes\/"},"modified":"2020-03-18T10:25:48","modified_gmt":"2020-03-18T15:25:48","slug":"aggravated-assault-charge-after-body-slam-at-tennessee-popeyes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/dev.internetfactfinder.com\/levittandlevitt\/blog\/2019\/11\/aggravated-assault-charge-after-body-slam-at-tennessee-popeyes\/","title":{"rendered":"Aggravated assault charge after body-slam at Tennessee Popeyes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you drive about 150 miles northwest of Chattanooga, you will come to Columbia, the fast-growing seat of Maury County. The city of about 40,000 residents is where an incident at a fast food restaurant is getting widespread media attention.<\/p>\n<p>Video of the encounter shows a Popeyes employee body-slamming a woman in the parking lot outside the restaurant. The 55-year-old woman allegedly directed racial slurs at Popeyes workers before walking outside where she was confronted and slammed to the pavement. The 29-year-old employee is in jail after being <a href=\"\/criminal-defense\/violent-crimes-homicide-murder\/\">charged with aggravated assault<\/a>, a felony.<\/p>\n<p>According to news reports, the woman sustained a fractured knee and six broken ribs in the incident. Her attorney says she denies using the N-word in the encounter.<\/p>\n<p>A cellphone video taken inside the restaurant shows several agitated employees in a heated exchange with the woman. Cross-talk between the workers and woman makes it impossible to understand what is being said, but a man off-camera can be heard saying to the woman that she&#8217;s &#8220;in the wrong place saying the N-word.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Video taken outside the restaurant shows the woman being lifted up and then slammed down to the pavement.<\/p>\n<p>According to a Nashville <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsmv.com\/news\/tensions-running-high-after-body-slamming-incident-at-columbia-popeye\/article_375d9e22-028a-11ea-a5aa-b78b6b080c3e.html#tncms-source=article-nav-next\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">news report<\/a>, law enforcement officials have said store surveillance video also shows the incident. They said an investigation is ongoing and that it is possible that they will make more arrests.<\/p>\n<p>In Tennessee, a conviction on a Class C aggravated assault charge can result in a sentence of up to 15 years behind bars and a $10,000 fine. A Class D aggravated assault conviction can mean up to 12 years in a Tennessee state prison.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you drive about 150 miles northwest of Chattanooga, you will come to Columbia, the fast-growing seat of Maury County. The city of about 40,000 residents is where an incident at a fast food restaurant is getting widespread media attention. Video of the encounter shows a Popeyes employee body-slamming a woman in the parking lot [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-violent-crimes"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/dev.internetfactfinder.com\/levittandlevitt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/dev.internetfactfinder.com\/levittandlevitt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/dev.internetfactfinder.com\/levittandlevitt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dev.internetfactfinder.com\/levittandlevitt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dev.internetfactfinder.com\/levittandlevitt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/dev.internetfactfinder.com\/levittandlevitt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46635\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/dev.internetfactfinder.com\/levittandlevitt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dev.internetfactfinder.com\/levittandlevitt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dev.internetfactfinder.com\/levittandlevitt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}