LA cinemagoer pepper-sprays person using phone during film

A cinema patron in Los Angeles has been arrested for using pepper spray on a fellow moviegoer who was using their phone during the screening. The incident occurred on September 15 at the AMC Burbank 16 cinema, during a screening of the Andrew Garfield drama The Uprising. A witness told NBC News that a man in the audience asked another man to stop using his phone, with the request being declined. The witness then said he could hear the sound of aerosol spray, and felt the room fill with stinging gas. The assailant was identified as 34-year-old Matthew Ware of Los Angeles. According to witness Joe Rodriguez’s post on Reddit, Ware ran from the auditorium following the incident and was pictured being arrested in the cinema’s lobby. Police reports confirmed (via SFGate) that he was charged with misdemeanour battery and released the following morning. Aside from the victim, two other cinemagoers were treated for minor irritation at a local hospital. This guy pepper sprayed a whole row of people because one of them was on their phone the other day at the Burbank 16 byu/Dry_Commission2937 inAMCAListTrue It was described as “the most bizarre experience” by Rodriguez, who added: “ They didn’...