By Robyn Sidersky
The Virginian-Pilot
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. — Jaclyn Krogh was working behind the counter at Bad Ass Coffee on 18th Street when a police sergeant walked in the door Tuesday morning.
As he started to order, another man walked in and approached the sergeant, Krogh said.
“He came up in his face,” said Krogh, who heard the man say to the sergeant: “What did you say to me (expletive)?”
Then he started pushing the sergeant, she said in an interview.
The man and the officer scuffled in front of the counter, knocking baskets and other knickknacks off the shelves by the windows.
“I was ready to intervene,” Krogh said.
Krogh said she kicked the man in the back and stepped on him. Then she grabbed a heavy glass vase full of flowers from the counter.
“I was ready to clock him in the head,” she said.
But the sergeant told her to call 911.
The man ran out of the coffee shop and the sergeant caught and arrested him .
“It was really upsetting to see a cop being attacked,” Krogh said.
Bad Ass is a small, Hawaiian-themed coffee shop in an old beach cottage between 18th and 19th streets on Cypress Avenue. Officers are regular customers of the spot, which is about a block from the Police Department’s Second Precinct.
Antoine Omar Wynn, 33, of Norfolk, was charged with felony assault and battery of a law enforcement officer, destruction of property, disorderly conduct and providing a false identity to a law enforcement officer, according to a police news release.
Wynn declined to do an interview, according to a jail spokeswoman.
Krogh said: “I’m just doing what normal people should do.”
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