Woman charged with assaulting police officer who ordered her to stop urinating in public
COURTESY DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY
Athena Johnson
A 46-year-old woman was charged Saturday with punching a police officer who told her to stop urinating in public in Waikiki, according to police reports.
Athena Johnson, of no local address, was charged with first-degree assault on a law enforcement officer. She remained at Oahu Community Correctional Center today, unable to post $40,000 bail and had a preliminary hearing scheduled for Wednesday.
Johnson urinated on Kuhio Avenue next to a police-subsidized vehicle with an illuminated blue light on top about 10 p.m. Friday, according to a police affidavit filed in Honolulu District Court on Monday.
A sergeant sitting inside the parked vehicle saw Johnson step into the road next to the passenger side of his vehicle, and he got out to see Johnson squatting and urinating on Kuhio Avenue, the affidavit said. The officer told Johnson to stop urinating, and she became hostile, shouting threats and obscenities, and eventually struck the officer with a fist on the left side of his head, the document said. The officer felt pain, and the two struggled on the ground. At some point, he called for back up.
Johnson continued to resist and kick after other officers arrived, scratching another one and spitting on a third, the affidavit said.
She was arrested near the Food Pantry for several offenses, including harassment, urinating in public, and assault on a police officer.
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Athena Johnson, a prize prom date, a classy woman.
“The kind you don’t take home to mother…”
Lot os unstable, angry people in Waikiki as I have reported. Battle zone.
How many TOURISTS, Students, Military, and Locals urinate on the streets of Waikiki after a night of drinking? And, how many are cited and/or arrested? This is, at best, harassment and another example of the inconsistencies and absurdities by HPD. I have, on multiple occasions, witnessed many incidents; but then–they were Caucasians… Downright BIGGOTED and unnecessary.
I’ll bet, that same Police Sergeant went home and kicked the dog and beat his wife and children.
It was “provoked-assault”, and probably “self-defense”. “Athena” is probably–functionally illiterate.
Funny I don’t know anyone that would do that and that makes those other people disgusting too. She did it right in front of the cop is the problem and she was violent!!
Was she “cited and/or arrested” prior to “she became hostile, shouting threats and obscenities, and eventually struck the officer with a fist on the left side of his head…Johnson continued to resist and kick after other officers arrived, scratching another one and spitting on a third”. The cop probably just said “aye, you no can make shishi ova here” the same thing they say to everyone. but as she is “functionally illiterate” as you say she assaulted a guy for doing what we pay him to do you know…in part keeping our streets clean i.e. asking people to retain their bodily fluids…you know..in their bodies…
The cop has to fumigate his car now.
Take her home to your house.
First off, once you start you can’t stop but why there?
Performance art? A political statement? Maybe no reason but an immediate urge to go?
no man, women can stop it on a dime.
How many dimes are they in Waikiki. I’ve seen her do it once on Kalakaua Ave., squatting down and taking a leak
Stop allowing vagrants to live in the streets where they defecate and urinate everywhere and constitute cesspools of unwashed germs which they spread into the environment. What community are we ? Is Honolulu a pigsty already?
Free room and board. Why do you think the homeless are in your face when they can live else where? Would you like to put a person stinking of urine in your car?
She probably did it on purpose so she can get free shelter in lockup. At least now she won’t have to worry about where she’s going to sleep or if she will be able to find something to eat.
Probably the closest to the truth? The act in the presence of the police and patrol car was contrived to demonstrate her scorn against the establishment.
I imagine the officers involved needed a shower and change of clothes soon afterwards, and maybe a tetanus shot for at least one of them.
Such bacteria spewing miscreants should only be touched by remote control robots. The stench alone is more than a cop should have deal with.
Another dirt bag nut that we need to ship back to where she came from. Why do we let people with no job come here with a one way ticket???
She’ll claim she’s crazy and get off with a slap on the wrist?……send her to Bumpy’s Nation in Nalo?
good one, I agree
To put such a dirt bag in jail is cruel and unusual punishment for the staff who have to deal with her.
Another Obama voter bites the dust.
Now that was tacky!
How so? She appears to embraces the entire Obama agenda.
Hey gorilla, you OBVIOUSLY have named yourself after your IQ level. WTH does Obama have to do with a homeless lady. Oh yeah, you support Trump. Single digit IQ REQUIRED and YOU qualify in spades !!!
Whereas Drumpf voters bite da bag.
Why is this headline news? With everything happening in the US and Hawaii this is the headline?
Send the chronic back to the mainland – she has no aloha. How do I know she is a transplant? Local people have shame and would never do that in public.
“Stop urinating!” Easier said than done. Wonder if the Sgt. could’ve managed it. At least by the way the story reads (I almost said “by the sound of it”), she was using the gutter.
Send her back to her country. Why waste our taxpayers money on her?
Have to find a way to stop the influx of homeless “tourists”… There’s a reason why we have the largest per capita homeless population in the nation during a period with historically low unemployment in the islands: permanent homeless visitors. Free housing, free food, free medical, free car insurance, great weather, little police harassment and lots of bleeding hearts. Take a visit to Pali Longs. Every day there is a new able-bodied Caucasian young man begging for money.
Said able-bodied Caucasian young man lives above the freeway off Nuuanu Avenue in back of Foster Botanical Gardens.
Oh this is way too much information that I didn’t need early Tuesday morning.
The highs and the lows: the impossibly difficult to afford high end living and the homeless. Developers will not develop public housing, so the government needs to do it: however no action in at least 10 years. If government had started public housing projects 10 years ago, the same time as rail was being considered, we would have a much less homeless problem now. All the tax money spent on rail is not doing any good for the homeless. We can’t simply eradicate the homeless, like Hitler did the Jews in the Holocaust in World War II. If government starts now in permanent housing solutions, they would be ready in five years. No one has started though, not the State or the City. Everyone is pointing fingers at each other. The homeless problem seems to be getting worse, not better. Are our politicians hearing our Voices in the Crowd?
The campers on Kapahulu do it against the fence of Ala Wai GC all day.
I seen a white man with a beard and a black woman who was about 8 to 9 months pregnant, who were a couple, who were setting up a tarp on the ground in front of my car, which I had parked just a way into the road that leads to the Ala Wai Golf Course. They were setting up the tarp between my car and the Ala Wai Canal. If they were on foot, and that’s not an if, it’s a certainty, they would do it anywhere, when no one could see, and I’m not talking about sex, I’m talking about urination and defecafion. As the locals say: “if someting smell stink, no go over there”.
Assaulting a police officer is plain stupid. However, some cops have the chiisai ochin chin syndrome, so they bully the helpless. On the other hand, MAYBE, just MAYBE, there should be more public restrooms, so locals, tourists, and the homeless don’t HAVE to urinate in public. The luas can be the same kind used in Oregon that have a couple inches of space between the ground and the bottom of the walls so any drug use or vandalism is monitorable.
Mayor Caldwell, how about doing something useful like putting public restrooms on Kuhio !!!
Find out where’s she from, send her there and tell her not to come back. Cheaper than locking her up or finding a place for her and feeding her. She is a big negative for Hawaii.