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BBC \u2014 Thomas Callaway was sentenced to a year on probation and must pay a $1,000 (\u00a3750) fine.<\/p>\nBBC \u2014 Thomas Callaway was sentenced to a year on probation and must pay a $1,000 (\u00a3750) fine.<\/p>\n
Reporter Alex Bozarjian had been covering a run when Callaway hit her.<\/p>\n
She said she forgave him in court on Tuesday, adding: “Nobody has the right to touch anybody or slap anybody for their own amusement.”<\/p>\n
“It may seem harmless to other people,” Bozarjian told ABC 8 News. “But it’s obviously a toxic thought pattern because what Mr Callaway did on that bridge validates the idea that I don’t deserve my own personal space.<\/p>\n
“It also reinforces the belief that as a woman, my body doesn’t belong to me. But the reality of that is it’s not true – because he came in court today and plead guilty to a crime.”<\/p>\n
The video of the incident during a race in Savannah, Georgia, was viewed nearly 10 million times on Twitter last year.<\/p>\n
In it, runner Callaway is seen striking Bozarjian’s backside as he passes, causing her to stare after him in alarm before continuing her report.<\/p>\n
Bozarjian told CBS News last year: “He took my power, and I’m trying to take that back…I think what it really comes down to is that he helped himself to a part of my body.”<\/p>\n
Following Tuesday’s hearing, Bozarjian noted that Callaway had tried to apologise a number of times, and she now accepted.<\/p>\n
“I have all my power intact today and I forgave him.”<\/p>\n
There are a number of accounts of female reporters being harassed while doing their jobs.<\/p>\n
A 2018 survey<\/a> by the International Women’s Media Foundation reported 58% of female journalists surveyed indicated they had been threatened or harassed in person, and 26% said they had been physically attacked.<\/p>\n Last year, a reporter was kissed on air by a man while covering a music festival<\/a> in Kentucky. In 2018, multiple reporters were subject to kiss attempts by strangers<\/a> during live reports from the World Cup in Russia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" BBC \u2014 Thomas Callaway was sentenced to a year on probation and must pay a $1,000 (\u00a3750) fine. Reporter Alex Bozarjian had been covering a run when Callaway hit her. She said she forgave him in court on Tuesday, adding: “Nobody has the right to touch anybody or slap anybody for their own amusement.” “It […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":88634,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latests"],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"3.0.2","language":"en","enabled_languages":["fa","en"],"languages":{"fa":{"title":true,"content":false,"excerpt":false},"en":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88633"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88633\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88636,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88633\/revisions\/88636"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}