SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) — A woman seen verbally and physically assaulting restaurant staff in a viral video that ripped across the internet Monday was arrested for public intoxication, KRON4 has learned. The video, which was posted Sunday by an employee of Hazie’s in SF’s Hayes Valley, opens with the unidentified woman berating staff while filming them with her phone.
The San Francisco Police Department confirmed the woman’s name as Shireen Afkari.
Miguel Marchese, a bartender at Hazie’s, told KRON4 the incident occurred sometime around 9 p.m., after the woman and her date were refused service because they appeared intoxicated.
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“The night was quite chaotic, the couple came in, they were requesting dinner service,” Marchese told KRON4. “Initially, the server verbalized to me that she could tell that her table was not only intoxicated, but perhaps on some other substances and they were giving her quite a rough time and being quite verbally abrasive with her and then I do believe after that, they asked for the manager to intervene.”…