HONOLULU (AP) — Charges could be dismissed against a woman who was recorded shouting obscenities at another motorist in Moanalua.
HONOLULU (AP) — Charges could be dismissed against a woman who was recorded shouting obscenities at another motorist in Moanalua.
Kimberly Ong pleaded no contest Monday to unauthorized entry into a vehicle. A circuit court judge agreed to a deferred acceptance motion, allowing the charges to be dismissed if Ong avoids criminal trouble for the next four years, KHON-TV reported (https://bit.ly/1fDk4nu).
She has been ordered to undergo anger management therapy.
Ryan Arakaki captured Ong on camera driving a minivan with her son in the front passenger seat tailing him, getting out of her vehicle shouting obscenities and reaching into his window.
Arakaki acknowledges he initially cut her off because she wasn’t paying attention to the road and was instead looking at her phone.
The footage of the September 2014 incident was posted online. The video generated numerous comments online in a state where people often talk about “driving with aloha,” where it can be considered rude to honk even when the driver doesn’t immediately go when the light turns green.
The video shows the woman get out of her vehicle and confront Arakaki with curse words, gestures and insults. He said she tried to knock the phone out of his hands.
“I think she was trying to whack the phone out of my hand. But yeah, she reached into my vehicle, hit my hand and on the video, you can see my hand jerk back,” Arakaki previously told KHON.
Ong said last year that she should have chosen better words to express her anger but doesn’t “totally 100 percent regret it.”
“I was super, super angry. I really was angry,” Ong said previously. “And, of course, he was taunting me somewhat. So that obviously made me even more angry.”
Ong faces a sentence of up to five years in jail.