This is insane. The argument began apparently over either a lack of straws or a ban on straws. But the dude attacking the girl behind the counter is ridiculous.
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YAHOO – A male customer was arrested for assaulting two female McDonald’s employees, grabbing one over the counter and kicking the other in the stomach.
In a spectator’s video taken on New Year’s Eve, customer Daniel Willis Taylor, 40, who is white, yelled at a black cashier named Yasmine James inside a St. Petersburg, Fla., McDonald’s, reaching across the counter and grabbing her by the collar. She fought back, punching him on the arm and pulling his shirt.
Co-workers pulled them apart, and then someone who appears to be a manager calmly finished the attacker’s order. “And I want her a** fired right now,” said Taylor. When James says he’s going to jail for assaulting her, Taylor shot back, “I was just asking you a f***ing question, b****.”
Then to the manager, Taylor says, “You’re going to give me a goddamn refund.”
The other incident was only captured on store surveillance video and shows Taylor being escorted out of McDonald’s and kicking a black female employee named Tateona Bell in the stomach while she stood near the door. A representative of the St. Petersburg Police Department tells Yahoo Lifestyle that the security tape is not being released at this stage of the investigation.
According to an arrest affidavit sent to Yahoo Lifestyle by the St. Petersburg Police Department, Taylor, a transient from Clearwater, Fla., was charged with two counts of simple battery, a misdemeanor.
I have no idea what went on during their interaction that precipitated this, and I’m not going to speculate. But it seems pretty clear that this jerk has severe anger management issues and jail is the perfect place for him.
I think he’s also lucky he didn’t get a beat down by her coworkers. I was surprised at how calm they were in trying to break it up.