Man busted for shouting obscenity at reporter on live TV

A Maryland man is facing charges in Canada for yelling a sexually explicit threat at a female television reporter during a live interview with a cop, police said.

Britt Dixon, a reporter for CHCH-TV in Ontario, was conducting an interview with a uniformed police officer outside the Hamilton Police Service on Friday when a man in a passing truck yelled “f— her right in the p—-,” video posted by the station shows.

“Wow,” a startled Dixon said. “Again … in front of a police officer.”

Dixon then asked the man, identified by the Baltimore Sun as 23-year-old Fawaz Abudhamad, why he yelled the vulgar phrase at her during the interview.

“Because everybody in the United States [says] that,” Abudhamad replied.

“Well, it’s not funny,” said the cop on camera with Dixon just seconds before he told Abudhamad: “Let’s go.”

Abudhamad was later charged with causing a disturbance. He has since been released from custody and is due to return to court Monday, the Baltimore Sun reports. He could not be reached for comment Wednesday.

Dixon, meanwhile, told the Hamilton Spectator she was sexually harassed on two occasions earlier this week at Mohawk College in Ontario, including while doing an interview. Those incidents are under investigation, the newspaper reports. Dixon later referenced the incident on her Twitter account.

Dixon said she didn’t want to press charges in the latest incident, but police charged Abudhamad because an officer witnessed the exchange.

“It’s unnerving and it’s offensive and it’s mortifying,” Dixon told the newspaper. “This is my workplace. My workplace is wherever I go … and someone is harassing me at my workplace.”

The offensive phrase was popularized in 2014 after videos surfaced online of men interrupting female reporters during live broadcasts.