'It's kind of traumatizing. I'm going to remember that for the rest of my life.'
Before the video started capturing the action, the woman threw a skateboard belonging to eleven-year-old Charleston Davidson into the South Platte River , according to witnesses and an incident report from the Denver Police Department. The conflict happened on the evening of Friday, June 28, in Shoemaker Plaza, across from the flagship REI store.
At one point, a thirteen-year-old boy tells the woman to"look how you made this kid feel," pointing to a crying Charleston. She then runs up to the thirteen-year-old, grabbing him, yanking on his shirt and appearing to swing her fist toward his head while calling him a"punk-ass bitch." "It was frightening," she says, explaining that police only told her about the skateboard being thrown into the water, not the subsequent attack."It looks like a maniac running after kids. What if wouldn't have calmed her down? How far would it have escalated? ... I didn't know her behavior was like that."When they spoke on the phone, Romansky did not explain what prompted her to go off on the young skateboarders, Stacia says.
The Singer-Smiths kept the woman away from the boys as they waited for the police, whom the woman had called earlier. Taylor stayed with the woman while David tried to comfort the young skateboarders, getting a recap of the incident from their perspectives. Officers responded to the scene but did not file a criminal report, according to the Denver Police Department. The incident report does not mention the woman's claims that any of the boys assaulted her — or refer to the woman's behavior captured on film."I was shocked seeing the video, as well," David says."It's the kind of clip you see all over the internet, but encountering it in real life was very surreal. ... My only regret is that we didn't step in sooner.
Charleston has been skateboarding since he was four years old and started skating competitively last summer. He had a competition the day after he lost his board, which forced him to throw together a new skateboard using wheels and trucks he had previously been gifted or won in contests. Charleston placed third, Stacia says."He probably could have placed first" but for the new board, she adds."None of it was the correct sizing. It was just put together.
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