Jonathan Bird, who went viral after a restaurant owner sprayed him with a fire extinguisher for smoking in Salt Lake City's Gallivan Plaza, is suing his assailant for damages.
On September 20, Bird was volunteering for the city's Urban Arts Festival. He left his post for a smoke break and lit up near vegan restaurant Boltcutter. Quickly, the owner of the restaurant, Alex Jamison, approached him and asked him to move, which Bird did.When Bird returned to the plaza several hours later for another cigarette, according to his suit, he made sure to stand at the opposite end of the plaza from Boltcutter.
Witness Elaina Henderlite pulled out her phone during the second confrontation and began recording. In the video, which she posted to Facebook, Jamison says"You can't smoke right here" and points the nozzle of the extinguisher at Bird's face. Bird flinches away, then turns to face Jamison, at which point the restaurateur pulls the trigger on the extinguisher from a few feet away and gives Bird a full force spray in the face.
Henderlite posted the clip on Facebook, where it quickly racked up over 100,000 views. She has since deleted it.after the incident, where he expressed his intention to sue. He told the station"It's not just white powder that magically puts out a fire. They put certain chemicals in there for a reason. One of them is to suck the oxygen out of the fire. So potentially putting that into my lungs is suffocating them and sucking my oxygen as a human.
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