Uploaded April 2014 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
April 8, 2014, Little rock Arkansas (KATV)-An elderly couple was attacked at a restaurant when they asked a woman to refrain from cursing while talking on a cell phone, according to police.
The incident happened at Cuisine of China on Geyer Springs road. In the police report, Don Francis, 74 and his wife Bettye Francis, 69, say they were attacked by Joecelyn Thornton, 33, after Francis asked her to stop cursing.
In the surveillance video, a woman can be seen walking over to a table and pushing Francis. His wife intervenes and that's when Thornton allegedly attacks her, pushing her into a table and punching her face, according to the report.
Thornton is being charged with 2nd degree battery, a class D felony, and 2nd degree assault, a class B misdemeanor.
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April 8, 2014, Little rock Arkansas (KATV)-An elderly couple was attacked at a restaurant when they asked a woman to refrain from cursing while talking on a cell phone, according to police.
The incident happened at Cuisine of China on Geyer Springs road. In the police report, Don Francis, 74 and his wife Bettye Francis, 69, say they were attacked by Joecelyn Thornton, 33, after Francis asked her to stop cursing.
In the surveillance video, a woman can be seen walking over to a table and pushing Francis. His wife intervenes and that's when Thornton allegedly attacks her, pushing her into a table and punching her face, according to the report.
Thornton is being charged with 2nd degree battery, a class D felony, and 2nd degree assault, a class B misdemeanor.
17 U.S.C. § 107
Notwithstanding the provisions of sections 17 U.S.C. § 106 through § 122, the fair use of a copyrighted work, including such use by reproduction in copies or phonorecords or by any other means specified by that section, for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching (including multiple copies for classroom use), scholarship, or research, is not an infringement of copyright.
