A California CEO is facing a federal assault charge after surveillance footage shows him choking a man for dancing barefoot on a Virgin Voyages cruise ship.

The incident took place on March 31 in international waters on the Resilient Lady cruise ship, according to a federal criminal complaint filed on April 1.

Authorities allege that Kenneth DeGiorgio, the CEO of First American Financial Corp., assaulted a man, identified as M.A. in the complaint, at the On The Rocks bar aboard the ship. The security supervisor reviewed video footage and “determined DeGiorgio was the male shown on the surveillance footage choking the victim,” according to the complaint.

  • Rusty Shackleford@programming.dev
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    thats derogatory

    Despite whether it was called for or not, being derogatory is the point.

    and misogynistic.

    No, it’s not.

    For example, my mother is a gambling-addicted, mean-spirited, unapologetic, narcissistic bitch. My brother, my cousins, and I have receipts to prove it.

    For what she put my family and I through, I will call her a bitch to her face at every opportunity, until her death. To denigrate her. Because she deserves it.

    She is the equivalent of the definition of a bitch, a female dog. In fact, she’s worse because female dogs, in my experience, have been orders of magnitude more loyal, agreeable, and loving.

    Do I hate all women? Does equating a woman to a female dog reveal an irrational contempt of every woman?

    Absolutely not, and my wife, niece, cousins, and female friends would all agree. People who make claims like yours attempt to infantilize and absolve women of ridicule or accountability in some weird effort to appear to want to “protect” them, and, ironically, are being sexist towards women!

    Women are just people; some are wonderful and some are awful, and some are stupid bitches, from the goddess Laxmi right down to my abusive bitch of a mother; let’s not forget one of the worst bitches of all time, “The Bitch of Buchenwald”.

    Your banal and platitudinous political correctness on the internet will never change that.

    • GeeDubHayduke@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      Your banal and platitudinous political correctness on the internet will never change that.

      I love this sentiment. Wish i saw it more.