The CEO of a private equity firm in Colorado is facing felony assault charges after he was caught on camera violently attacking a 15-year-old boy and slamming him to the floor of an In-N-Out Burger for accidentally splashing his wife with water, according to police.
Lucas Kalisher, 55, the chief executive at Summit Source Funding, was at the restaurant in Loveland on Aug. 4 when the teen, who was goofing off in the restaurant dining room, accidentally splashed the woman while flinging water at his pals.
The teen approached the table to apologize when a man the size of a professional wrestler stood up and grabbed him.
Video footage shows the large man ordering the startled boy to “say sorry” before placing him in a chokehold and throwing him to the tile floor like a rag doll.
“You don’t treat a lady that way,” Kalisher admonished the teen while standing over him.
The boy’s pals quietly backed away from the man, not wanting to be next in line to face his wrath.
Witnesses were also stunned, with one person calling out the man for “picking on a kid like that.”