Watch video waitress body-slam man who fumbles her

Emelia Holden, a 21-year-old student and waitress, is a social media laureate after the video showed she was defending herself against a man who was groping for her

. at work at Vinnie VanGo-Go's, a pizzeria in Savannah, Georgia, and the story went viral this week on Reddit.

The video of the restaurant shows a man reaching out to catch the back of a server. . She rushes quickly after him, grabs the back of his shirt and slaps him in a wall. He falls to the ground and seems to sit stunned while she gives him a part of his mind.

Holden told the CBS WTOC affiliate how the incident unfolded. "I took order from someone and I was getting ready to install them, then I felt it," she said. "I said to myself" no, it will not happen "and I turned around and got the guy down."

She seemed a little surprised by her own strength. "I'm 115 pounds, I did not know I could do that," she laughed. "I guess I just had the right position for that and I did it."

The restaurant manager told the police that he had witnessed the incident and provided them with surveillance footage.

Savannah police have accused Ryan Cherwinski, 31, of Palm Bay, Florida, of committing a sexual offense. According to the police report obtained by WTOC, Cherwinski said: "It is an accident that he caught the waitress [and] that he was only trying to inform him that to move because that she was on the way. "

But Holden does not.

"To see them handcuffed was good," Holden said in an interview with Inside Edition on Thursday.

The video went viral after she shared it with family members and one family member posted it online. A person identifying as Holden's cousin shared the images in the "JusticeServed" thread on Reddit, writing: "My cousin takes this guy to take her ass, he is then arrested in front of his wife and both children when the cops arrive. "The Savannah Police Department told CBS News that they could not confirm if Cherwinski's family was at the restaurant at the time of the incident.

Since she's become an internet phenomenon, Holden told the WTOC that she had received a lot of positive reactions from the public – but also some negative reactions.

"There were some, too," these shorts are small, "Holden said. "It should not be important, it's upsetting to see people who have that kind of thinking, but it's really reassuring to see how well everyone has responded."

"Recently, there is the whole movement #MeToo thinks it's really great," she said. "What I get out of it is how much it inspires other women: you have the right to defend yourself, no matter who it is, no one has the right to put your hand in. have the consent. "