{"id":98653,"date":"2025-12-17T19:49:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T19:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/98653\/"},"modified":"2025-12-17T19:49:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T19:49:08","slug":"strava-worker-shireen-afkari-fired-after-san-francisco-bar-brawl-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/98653\/","title":{"rendered":"Strava worker, Shireen Afkari, fired after San Francisco bar brawl video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>San Francisco police revealed the identity of the woman whose <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/12\/15\/us-news\/worker-at-trendy-san-francisco-eatery-body-slams-irate-customer-in-wild-video\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">booze-soaked rampage<\/a> at an upscale eatery went viral this week \u2014 and her tech employer confirmed she\u2019s been canned for the humiliating scene. <\/p>\n<p>Police identified Shireen Afkari \u2014 listed as a marketing manager for the fitness app Strava and former employee of Credit Karma on a now-scrubbed LinkedIn profile \u2014\u00a0as the woman who was caught on video taunting and pummeling staff at Hazie\u2019s before being body slammed by a bartender and later tripping and face-planting on the sidewalk in the Hayes Valley neighborhood, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kron4.com\/news\/bay-area\/woman-in-viral-video-seen-assaulting-hazies-staff-arrested-for-public-intoxication\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">KRON.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Shireen Afkari, left.  Shireen Afkari<\/p>\n<p>Strava representatives said they made the decision to end the individual\u2019s employment on Monday. Miguel Marchese\/Instagram<\/p>\n<p>Officers arrived on the scene at 9:41 p.m. Saturday after Afkari, who was accompanied by a male companion, was dragged out of the restaurant after taking a swing at staff and violently knocking a phone out of another person\u2019s hands.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s f\u2014ing harassing me,\u201d Afkari shouted at a bartender off camera before being hauled outside by Miguel Marchese, a staffer who later shared video of the incident on Instagram.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOoooh, he\u2019s a liar.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\tNeed West Coast news? The California Post is coming soon.\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"inline-module__cta\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tGet in early. Sign up for our weekly newsletter before our 2026 launch.\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tThanks for signing up!\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Afkari was arrested for public drunkenness and sent to county jail, according to cops. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are aware of an employee who exhibited extremely concerning off-hours behavior. We don\u2019t condone violence of any kind and this does not reflect the standards we expect of our team,\u201d Strava wrote in an Instagram <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DRzxZvuDzvA\/?igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ%3D%3D\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">comment<\/a>. \u201cThis past Monday, we made the decision to end the individual\u2019s employment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Shireen Afkari was tripped up outside the bar as the viral video concluded. Miguel Marchese\/Instagram<\/p>\n<p>The woman and her date were physically escorted from the bar. Miguel Marchese\/Instagram<\/p>\n<p>Afkari did not respond to The Post\u2019s request for comment.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"San Francisco police revealed the identity of the woman whose booze-soaked rampage at an upscale eatery went viral&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":98654,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[7,16405,17871,101,103,102,104,106,105,995,3586,53861],"class_list":["post-98653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-california","tag-drunk","tag-fights","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news","tag-tech","tag-us-news","tag-wearable-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98653\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}