Beyond Meat exec accused of biting man’s nose in road rage attack

He had been waiting in a line of cars to get out of a parking garage when another driver tried to inch in front of him.

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (AP) — An executive of the vegan food company Beyond Meat has been charged with felony battery and making a terroristic threat after a fracas outside a football game in which he’s accused of biting a man’s nose, officials said.

The altercation involving Beyond Meat Chief Operations Officer Doug Ramsey was described as a road rage attack outside Saturday’s game between the Arkansas Razorbacks and Missouri State Bears in Fayetteville, Arkansas, according to Fayetteville television station KNWA.

A police report says Ramsey — a 53-year-old Fayetteville resident — had been waiting in a line of cars to get out of a parking garage when another driver tried to inch in front of him. The other vehicle “made contact” with a wheel on Ramsey’s sport utility vehicle.

According to witnesses cited in the police report, Ramsey got out of his vehicle and “punched through the back windshield” of the other car. The other driver also got out and confronted him, and Ramsey “pulled him in close and started punching his body” and also “bit the owner’s nose, ripping the flesh on the tip of the nose,” the officer reported.

A police officer arrived to find “two males with bloody faces,” the report states.

The other driver and the witness reported hearing Ramsey “threaten to kill” the man.

Beyond Meat, which is based in El Segundo, Calif., has not responded to messages from the Associated Press seeking comment.

Ramsey joined Beyond Meat as its chief operating officer in December after spending 30 years at Tyson Foods.