Police said 76-year-old Juan Bernal has been charged with misdemeanor assault.
Tonya Young Williams pictured on Sept. 4, 2024, at her store on the Upper West Side store, where she said a man wearing a Trump T-shirt spit on her and called her racial slurs after seeing a poster of Vice President Kamala Harris in her window.on the owner of a New York City clothing boutique who says confrontation erupted last month over a large poster of Vice President Kamala Harris she displayed in her window, according to police.
"He said, 'You should have this in your window,'" Williams said of the man who allegedly pointed to his T-shirt touting Harris' opponent, former President Donald Trump. "I moved toward him to keep him sort of out of the store and said, 'I'm supporting Kamala.'" She alleged the suspect spat at her again, in her face, and she reached out and grabbed him by the shoulders and told witnesses gathered around them to call the police.
A New York Police Department spokesperson told ABC News that the department launched an investigation of the alleged crime as an assault in the third degree. The incident, which happened in the 20th precinct, is not being investigated as a hate crime but could be escalated depending on the evidence uncovered, the spokesperson said.
Williams is the ex-wife of former NBA star Jayson Williams, who pleaded guilty to aggravated assault in the 2002 accidental shooting of a limousine driver.
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