A senior government at plant-based meals firm Past Meat has been charged after a combat exterior an American soccer recreation by which he was accused of biting a person’s nostril.
Doug Ramsey was charged with felony battery, and likewise with making a terroristic menace after the assault on Saturday in a parking storage exterior a College of Arkansas soccer recreation in Fayetteville.
In keeping with a police report, Ramsey was angered when one other driver inched in entrance of him in a site visitors lane and made contact with a entrance wheel on Ramsey’s Ford Bronco SUV.
The police report alleges that Ramsey obtained out of his automobile and punched by way of the again windscreen of the opposite driver’s automobile.
The opposite driver instructed police he obtained out of his automobile and Ramsey pulled him shut and commenced punching him.
Ramsey additionally bit the tip of the opposite driver’s nostril, ripping the flesh, in accordance with the police report.
The motive force and witnesses instructed police that Ramsey threatened to kill him.
Occupants of each automobiles obtained out and separated the 2 males.
Ramsey, 53, spent greater than 30 years at Arkansas-based Tyson Meals earlier than becoming a member of Past Meat as chief working officer late final yr.
He held high management positions at Tyson, together with president of its poultry division and president of its world McDonald’s enterprise.
At Past Meat, he has guided partnerships with quick meals corporations together with McDonald’s and KFC.
Past Meat relies in El Segundo, California.