Florida Man Charged For Pushing Old Man Off Elevator To “Practice Social Distancing”
A Florida man became violent and pushed an 86-year-old man off of an elevator because he was attempting to practice social distancing.
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According to WSVN, surveillance video from Portofino Towers in Miami Beach shows Nachum Gross, 72, and his wife standing in an elevator when Gerald Steiglitz attempts to enter. Gross can be seen holding up two fingers in relation to the elevator’s two-person limit.
Gross then pushed the 86-year-old, causing him to fall into a table. Steiglitz said he was left with a huge bruise on his leg. Gross says the man tried to get in the elevator despite the social distancing rule.
Steiglitz said that he initially thought the man was saying“Hello.”
“I thought this was peace I didn’t know what it meant,” Steiglitz recalled.
Gross was soon charged with battery on a person 65 years or older.
“In this world of COVID, every human being is a loaded weapon, especially with the increase in cases here in Miami, so people are entitled to defend themselves,” said attorney Michael Grieco. “This is a self-defense case through and through, and my concern is that the police department and law enforcement made a huge mistake today by arresting somebody for trying to protect himself. Ideally, he will never go to court because I don’t foresee any prosecutor who actually walks in a courtroom or any prosecutor who has ever walked in a courtroom, ever filing a case like this. This is beyond ridiculous.”