Friday night was business as usual for 28-year-old Shoshana Fisher, who works as a bouncer at Pianos, a bar on Manhattan’s Lower East Side. That night, the bar was hosting a 7 p.m. show featuring five different bands.
Fisher was wrangling a snaking line of patrons waiting to get in, while also keeping an eye on those who’d stepped outside for some air or a smoke break.
Some time around 11:30 p.m., Fisher heard a woman outside yell, “He just grabbed my ass, oh, my God!” When Fisher went up to the woman, who she guessed was in her mid-20s, the woman said a man on the street had grabbed her rear end and fled to a nearby venue.
She told Fisher she wanted to call the police and report her assailant, which is when Fisher and the other bouncers swooped into action, escorting the man back to Pianos and pulling up security footage catching him in the act.
The authorities arrived on the scene soon after and removed the man in handcuffs.Fisher’s friend Eliel Cruz-Lopez tweeted out a screenshot of Fisher’s Snapchat story showing the man’s arrest. “This is what happens when you grab a girl’s ass unsolicited at my venue,” she’d captioned the photo. “BYE.” All in a day’s work. Read more.(4/18/2017 11:25 AM)
