Woman drives off with officer on the hood
theGRIO REPORT - A photograph taken on the streets of San Francisco last week went viral. The story behind it bizarre...
A photograph taken on the streets of San Francisco last week went viral.
The story behind it bizarre.
Witness Allison Yates says the driver was “zooming down” Oak Street in San Francisco at around 10:15 a.m. on Thursday morning.
“I saw her go by and realized there was a guy on the hood on his back, hanging on kind of spread-eagled,” Yates said. “She turned right from that far left lane across all lanes of traffic onto Octavia. We caught up to her around Market — she was screaming, he was screaming, it was insane.”
San Francisco police told KRON 4 that a parking officer giving the driver, Bo Monsoumbath, a citation and ended up on her hood.
She was trying to drive away when the traffic officer jumped so he would not be run over. While driving off with the officer on the hood, she also hit a motorcycle.
According to the police, the woman drove with the officer on her hood for a mile, from Alamo Square to Market Street. They managed to catch up with the car, and the man was safely brought back with the feet on the ground.
The driver is Bo Monsoumbath, a 33-year-old from San Francisco. While sharing her side of the story with KRON 4, she said she has been sexually harassed and did what she did out of fear. She said her intentions were not to run the officer over: “I was terrified. I’m still terrified.”
She continued by saying the officer asked her to “do things instead of getting a parking citation which led me to believe he was posing as a meter maid. I am still shaken up by the whole situation. I was sexually harassed then had a man jump on my car. I never tried to run that meter maid over. It’s clear I’m at a stop in the pic, and I made several stops.”
Yates, who took the picture showing the situation, says Monsoumbath was very upset:
“She kept yelling, ‘you’re scaring me.’ At one point the cars were stopped at the light and she actually hopped out. She was yelling, guy on the car was yelling, motorcycle guy was yelling, and the light turned green and they all got back on and kept moving.”
Monsoumbath was arrested by the police and charged with assault with a deadly weapon and misdemeanor hit and run. The deadly weapon in this situation is the car.
