A female powerlifter has gone viral for tweeting a picture of her bruised-looking knuckles after she punched a man in the face for sexually assaulting her.

Leanna Carr, a powerlifter from Colorado, said she was walking down the street in Dublin when a man grabbed her from behind. The fitness model hit him so hard she bruised her knuckles.

She later uploaded photos of her injured hand on social media. “While walking down the street in Dublin earlier this week, a man grabbed my butt,” she wrote on Twitter.

While walking down the street in Dublin earlier this week, a man grabbed my butt. He proceeded to laugh hysterically and said “you’re an American, you probably liked it”. Apparently traveling solo has made me a better person bc my first reaction was to punch him in the face 😳 pic.twitter.com/qJ82a3iimI

— Leanna Carr (@Leanna_Carr) April 21, 2018

“He proceeded to laugh hysterically and said ‘you’re an American, you probably liked it’. Apparently traveling solo has made me a better person bc my first reaction was to punch him in the face.”

The incident didn’t end there, the muscled beauty revealed that she feared “he was going to hit back.”
“I started yelling a couple more things to him like ‘don’t ever touch a girl like that again, I could get you arrested.’ He became very mad and I thought he was going to hit back,” she said.
“But there was an older couple next to us who saw the whole thing, and the gentleman told the scumbag to keep walking. The man started laughing again and then crossed the street to disappear in the crowd of people,” she added.
“I am never a violent person, and I have never punched anyone before… but I became so angry and had so much adrenaline that my reaction was to punch him. I got him on the cheek bone, hard.”
“I’ve never travelled solo and for this to have happened made me a little nervous. My first reaction was a little guilt, wondering if I had done the right thing in the situation. I probably would have reacted differently, say if I had been in a dark alley alone with him. I guess I felt more confidence acting the way I did because it was still light out and on a busy street.”
Her tweet received thousands of likes and retweets less than a week. Here are some praises :

As a fellow solo travler, YAAAAAS GIRL

— Scarlett ツ (@scar_renee) April 21, 2018

Shia approves pic.twitter.com/Xs3sJzJbut

— Ricardo Gonzalez (@ricardogonz08) April 21, 2018

Did you say You’re Irish so you probably liked it.

— Marty Remmers (@remmers_marty) April 21, 2018

Respect all women in the world, they are not toys, that’s guy should shame his act.

— Muhammad siddiq (@siddiqsiddiq364) April 21, 2018

You are my hero.

— annie (@asch0lz) April 22, 2018

pic.twitter.com/x7yOAQzXhI

— Ching (@___C_h_i_n_g___) April 22, 2018

In that case, he realized that, that was a bad decision…don’t change a thing, he should know he’s in the wrong!

— Ruben Ramirez (@ruben_r23) April 22, 2018