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A woman seen verbally and physically assaulting restaurant staff in a viral video that ripped across the internet Monday was arrested for public intoxication, KRON4 has learned. The video, which was posted Sunday by an employee of Hazie’s in SF’s Hayes Valley, opens with the unidentified woman berating staff while filming them with her phone.

The San Francisco Police Department confirmed the woman’s name as Shireen Afkari.


Miguel Marchese, a bartender at Hazie’s, told KRON4 the incident occurred sometime around 9 p.m., after the woman and her date were refused service because they appeared intoxicated.

According to Marchese, after speaking with the couple, the manager made the call to not serve the couple.

“He retracts her cocktails from the table, because I just made them, he brings them back and he simply tells me, ‘They’ve had enough to drink, we shouldn’t serve them anymore.’ And then later, it just kind of spiraled into chaos,” he said.

As the video continues, Afkari is seen striking the phone of someone filming the incident.

Later in the video, the woman is seen getting into more physical altercations at the bar. At one point, another woman sitting at the bar, later identified as a restaurant employee, gets up and takes the woman to the ground, before returning to her seat.

But that was not the end of it. The scene continued outside the restaurant and at some point in the melee, Afkari grabbed ahold of Marchese’s hair.

Marchese said she only let go of his hair after he grabbed her phone.

After Marchese threw Afkari’s phone, she can be seen running toward him in the video. In the video, the bartender appears to stick a leg out to trip the woman who falls face first onto the sidewalk.

As Afkari gets up from the sidewalk, she is heard berating her date as he helps her up. The man then gets into a brief altercation with restaurant staff before the two of them are ushered down the sidewalk, away from the restaurant.

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