Man arrested for yelling ‘FHRITP’

Hamilton police have arrested a man for causing a disturbance after a CHCH news reporter was sexually harassed on the job for the third time this week.

Reporter Britt Dixon was interviewing an officer outside the Hamilton police central station Friday when a truck drove by with its windows down and a person yelled, “f-k her right in the p---y.”

“I was like what? Again? In front of a police officer?” Dixon said.

The truck parked outside the station and the officer went over to it, Dixon said. When the man who yelled at her walked by to go into the station, she said he asked him why he did it, to which he replied “because everyone in the States does it.”

Earlier this week, Dixon was yelled at twice by men at Mohawk College — once while doing an interview and again before she was about to go live on TV. Mohawk security is investigating those incidents.

The man who yelled at Dixon outside the station is in custody, Const. Jerome Stewart said Friday evening.

“The Hamilton Police Service will continue to investigate this incident,” he said.

Police could not provide additional details about the arrested man, but Dixon said he is a 24-yearold from Maryland.

Dixon said she did not want to press charges but police did so because they witnessed the incident.

But she does want to get the message out that making lewd statements at people who are just doing their job isn’t funny — it is “wrong” and “unacceptable.”

“It’s unnerving and it’s offensive and it’s mortifying,” she said. “This is my workplace. I don’t work in an office.

“My workplace is wherever I go … and someone is harassing me at my workplace.”

Yelling FHRITP at reporters became a phenomenon in recent years following a popular online video.