Arrest made in alleged attack over New York City store owner's Kamala Harris window display [View all]

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Source: ABC News

By Bill Hutchinson
September 10, 2024, 12:19 PM

A 76-year-old man has been arrested in an alleged attack 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.

The New York City Police Department confirmed to ABC News that the suspect, Juan Bernal of New York City, was arrested on Saturday and charged with assault in the third degree -- a class A misdemeanor.

Williams, the owner of Tanya's Luxury Fashion Boutique on the Upper West Side of Manhattan and alum of the VH1 series "Basketball Wives," told ABC News the attack unfolded outside her store on Aug. 30. She said she was standing in the doorway of her store around 1:30 p.m. when a man walked by her and then came back after apparently noticing the large poster of the Democratic presidential nominee displayed in her window along with T-shirts supporting Harris' run for the White House.

"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.'"






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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.
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