Pearl Ozoria, 27, of Manhattan, and Chitara Plasencia, 25, and Tatiyanna Johnson, 23, of Brooklyn, became angry with employees at a Ludlow Street Bel Fries on Manhattan’s Lower East Side around 4 p.m. Saturday morning after being told the extra sauce would cost about $2 extra.
As the women began their rampage, an employee who filmed the incident warned them “you’re going to jail” as they began causing $10,000 to $20,000 worth of damage.
As a result of their disturbance, the store has since been closed and the two employees — a 33-year-old woman and a man — suffered head injuries.
DailyMail.com has contacted Bel Fries for comment.
Three New York City women were arrested and charged with multiple charges after assaulting two workers at Bel Fries on the Lower East Side on Saturday
All three women at one point swarmed the employee quarters and began throwing a metal stool (pictured), ketchup bottles and trash at them. Both workers suffered head injuries
In the video, one of the women, wearing a white tank top, is seen throwing something under the Plexiglas barrier at an employee and appears to be saying something, but cannot be heard over the sound of an alarm.
Her friend, wearing a blue mini dress, is seen ripping the card reader off the counter and trying to pull it by the wires as the girl in the white tank top jumps over the counter.
The woman in the black dress tries, unsuccessfully, to remove it.
The girl in the white tank top tried to throw the plexiglass over the counter after tearing it, hitting the girl in the black dress
The girl in the blue mini dress (pictured) was seen throwing a metal sauce pump at staff, hitting the plexiglass and spraying the condiment everywhere
One of the girls smirked at the clerks cowering behind the counter
One of the girls was shaking the Plexiglas after trying to tear it
The woman in the white tank top wears the workers area as another of the women also tries to get on the counter.
Two women start throwing a metal stool and ketchup bottles at the employees, who try to be more supportive. The third woman, in the black dress, kneels at the counter, from which she tosses a light garbage bag to the employees before going to work on the Plexiglas divider.
before the woman in the blue dress tore it off the counter.
The girl in the white tank top starts tossing what appears to be a cap at the employees as the woman in blue grabs the removable sauce pump containers — which are metal — and slams them into the plexiglass, splattering a white sauce into the glass.
The attack happened at Bel Fries (pictured) on the Lower East Side on Ludlow Street
The store has been closed since Saturday but hopes to reopen on Thursday
The women also threw sauces at the staff. The video cuts as the girls continue to throw objects at the employees.
When officers arrived on the scene, Ozoria — it is not yet known if she is the woman in blue, white or black — allegedly punched one of the officers in the face. He was charged with assault on a police officer, resisting arrest, obstructing governmental administration and disorderly conduct.
He is currently housed at the Rose M. Singer Center in East Elmhurst and is being held on $5,000 bond. He is expected to appear in court on July 8.
Plasencia and Johnson were also charged with criminal possession of a weapon. The two do not appear in New York’s public inmate records. It is not clear if they posted bail or were released.
All three women also face robbery and felony charges, according to the New York Post.
French fries are actually BELGIAN
“Don’t call them french fries. Call them Bel Fries,” says the New York restaurant of the same name on their website, and they’re actually right! Although the favorite food item has been called french fries for over a century now, Americans have been calling them by the wrong origin ever since. Their crispy, soft-waisted goodness was first introduced to Belgium during World War I, according to Bel Fries. French fries were cutely nicknamed “French fries” by American soldiers since the Belgian army spoke the language at the time. French is still one of the country’s official languages, along with Dutch and German. “The name stuck and decades later Americans are still giving credit to the wrong country,” the restaurant wrote. “It’s time to give credit to Belgium and reinvent the name at Bel-Fries.” The side dish – or main meal, depending on how you’re feeling – was born in the winter of 1680 in Namur, according to Tasting Table. The dish was invented after the fish-loving locals had to find something else to eat after the Meuse River froze over. Fries are now part of the official UNESCO cultural treasures list for Belgium and have been since 2017.
