Prison Justice
Throwing meals at individuals has led to critical prison expenses for some
August 29, 2025, 11:00 am CDT
Posters of an individual throwing a sandwich are pictured alongside H Avenue on Aug. 17 in Washington. (AP Picture/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)
Whereas federal prosecutors did not get a felony indictment towards a person for throwing a sandwich at a regulation enforcement officer in Washington, D.C., (He was later charged with a misdemeanor) individuals have confronted critical penalties for hurling meals.
• In Ohio in 2023, a lady was sentenced to a month in jail, together with two months working a quick meals job, after pleading responsible to throwing a bowl of scorching meals within the face of a Chipotle employee. Rosemary Hayne was captured on video throwing meals on the employee at shut vary. Hayne, 39, and a mom of 4, pleaded responsible to a misdemeanor assault cost. Municipal Courtroom Choose Timothy Gilligan provided her a selection: 90 days in jail or 30 days, plus 60 days working in a quick meals job.
• Final yr in Clearwater, Florida, a person was charged with home battery for throwing items of hen at his sister. Khanye Edrayieze Medley, 20, and his sister “had been in a verbal altercation when the defendant grabbed a bag of hen from the sufferer and commenced to throw items of Church’s Hen at her,” based on the police report. “One piece of fried hen hit the sufferer within the again and left particles of meals on her shoulders.” The person instructed police “he did this as a result of he had not eaten and didn’t need the piece of hen the sufferer provided him, so he grew to become upset.”
• In 2008, a person ran as much as Vermont Gov. Jim Douglas and hit him within the face with a pie throughout an Independence Day parade. Matthew Manning, 23, pleaded responsible to disorderly conduct. He was sentenced to spend 5 days on a piece crew and apologized. Manning was dressed as Santa Claus in the course of the parade in Mt. Pelier, and hit the govenor with a pie earlier than being tackled.
• In 2010, 4 center college college students in Valparaiso, Indiana, had been arrested on battery expenses for beginning a meals combat within the cafeteria on the final day of college. The boys, all 14, had been launched to their mother and father.
• In Greenville, South Carolina, in 2022, police charged a person with third-degree assault and battery after a number of individuals reported being hit with whipped cream pies. Andre Eugene Moore-Gerald, 22, was recognized by surveillance video footage in addition to YouTube movies he created. “A girl was strolling on the sidewalk, pushing her little one in a stroller, when the pictured suspect hit her within the face with a plate of whipped cream,” police stated. “There have been a number of incidents of this occurring in the present day.”
• A teenage lady in Chicago was charged in 2023 with throwing meals at a Chicago Transit Authority worker. The lady, 17, started arguing with a CTA worker on a bus, police stated. When the argument escalated, the lady threw meals on the 60-year-old employee, based on police. She was charged with aggravated battery of a transit worker.
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