Posted on 11/11/2019 9:48:37 AM PST by rktman
COLUMBIA, Tenn. -- Another incident of violence erupted at a Popeyes with an employee allegedly body-slamming a woman onto the concrete outside a Tennessee restaurant.
Video of the alleged incident has gone viral and is now the subject of a police investigation.
Witnesses say the attack began after a woman disputed a charge on her bill at the restaurant in Columbia, Tennessee.
A heated argument ensued between the customer and several employees, prompting workers to tell the customer to leave the restaurant. Employees claim the woman then used a racial slur.
Footage shows the woman walking out of the restaurant, followed closely behind by several employees, including a man who appears to lift the woman off the ground and quickly slams her on the pavement.
The woman's attorney said the employee's actions weren't justified.
"If she said something that she regrets, it doesn't give a grown man the right to chase her into the parking lot as she is trying to leave the store, and body slam a 55-year-old grandmother down on the concrete," he said.
The customer's attorney also said the woman suffered nine fractures, including six broken ribs and a broken knee.
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This is smelling like a setup.
To many very good clear camera shots at the right place at the right time.
There is something else not being spoken of here.
it is getting to be more middle aged these days- with our better nutrition, better health care etc- 55 used to be pretty old for most people, now it’s only old for some- - 55 generally isn’t what it used to be, for some elderly folks- that’s for sure- but still- young people like that employee are just cowardly scum thugs- taking on a woman and an older woman at that-
I was amazed at the behavior of the entire crew behind the counter. Animals all need to be S#!t canned
Yes I agree about ANYONE attacking others, and the disrespect of “young” for elder.
Incidentally, as one who studies history AND graveyards a good deal, 55 has NEVER been “old” per se. Yes medical and so on help, but that has less to do with “retarding age” than just keeping alive. Same happens comparing SAME-ERA wildlife - in the wild (no help), vs captivity (good medical and nutrition).
Don’t believe the meaning of “average death age” - it’s brought down alot by death in/after childbirth, and diseases ravaging children as well as other younger healthy people. That does not mean people started bowing forward and shuffling their feet at the age of 45.
A set up? She volunteered to be body slammed?
simply go to one that’s not in the hood or staffed by hood trash. There’s one that I won’t go to again staffed by hood trash, if you ae white you’ll be waiting 20 minutes or better for your food (Palisades in Homewood, Alabama for reference) but the one in Pelham, AL has a better bunch running it,most times friendly and polite, food doesn’t take near as long to get, and it’s always fresh and hot.
“A set up? She volunteered to be body slammed?”
A fight maybe, not getting really hurt.
I don’t know, it just smells set up with the second camera just happening to be pointed at the frount door at the right time, set up and not moving before the door opens.
It said 55 year old grandmother. FACTS. Didn’t say elderly.
Btw some companies let you take your pension at 55, though at reducted amount.
Oh please. That woman will be living with pain the rest of her life.
Elbow fractured 9 places.
the averages have gone up- thanks to better nutrition, better health care, better lifestyles (in the old days- people worked very hard- and the bodies just wore out sooner from the abuse-) But- there is a reversing trend- too many folks, while eating better perhaps, are sitting around and not getting enough exercise- I do think more people are becoming a little more concerned about diet- on the whole- Back i n the 70’s 80’s etc people didn’t think much about diet- today though, I think it’s trending towards people getting a little more serious about watching what they eat- somewhat at least- I thin possibly we’ll see the grossly obese numbers start to come down a bit - but one thing that isn’t helping the average age rate is welfare- once folks get on that- they basically give up trying- get lazy, eat horribly- so that contributes to early deaths too-
[[That does not mean people started bowing forward and shuffling their feet at the age of 45]]
Life was brutal back when (Think pioneer days)- life was super hard, and families had to work like dogs and often didn’t have adequate food and nutrition especially in winter months- and their bodies, their bones etc suffered because of it- and when they got things like blown disks, arthritis in knees etc- they couldn’t go have them replaced- they had to be wheelchair bound for the rest of their lives in many cases- They also didn’t know much about proper nutrition- like getting enough calcium to keep bones healthy etc-
While death age rate was influenced by young dying early, and childbirth being so dangerous etc- super brutal living conditions, unsanitary conditions, weakened immune systems due to the hard life etc also played a major role-
The ‘average age’ thing is a very complex issue- lots of things factor into it- good genes certainly play a significant role- but much better health care also is a significant contributor-
the people in the lot likely were in the restaurant when it broke out and left- and videotaped thinking it might escalate outdoors when they saw her walking out with a group of thugs following her- They likely heard the screaming swearing, crowd coming towards the door- and got their camera out- There’s no reason to think this was set up- The way he threw her to the ground was absolutely vicious- brutal- barbarian! The slam was rage filled!
And how does a lone fifty five year old woman in 2019 saying a racial slur justify a 29 year old grown man slamming her into asphalt? How does she in anyway constitute such a mortal threat that physical violence is necessary? He utterances don’t even constitute cultural or financial diminishment in any way. It only hurts her social standing.
Wow! Just one fracture is painful enough0- but in 9 places- yimminy- wouldn’t want to go through that AND the broken ribs at the same time
Well i think one employee tried to get the punk to calm down and he shoved her off of him i n the beginning of the video- but by the end, there were a couple of thugs screaming at the woman aS she lay there bleeding and hurt-
They told her leave or we will call law enforcement. She said “the law is my family”.
Her son is a state trooper!
Doesn’t excuse anything but in this bizarro world and looking at the video, I think there is at least a chance that the grandmother is a man. Again it doesn’t excuse his actions, but it might explain the rage a little bit that the employee was feeling if it was a man dressed as a woman and calling the employee a nigger..
> Employees claim the woman then used a racial slur.
And then employees proceed to prove her correct.
yeah she was definitely trying to throw her weight around by name dropping in a sense- but still- in business, the customer is always right, even when they aren’t right- even when they are despicable- calling the police would have been the proper way to handle it IF she had gotten out of control- but simple hateful words are not a license for employees to take matters into their own hands and get revenge- by screaming back- - and screaming at a customer is bad enough, but then escalating it to violence is criminal- and every employee that was caught on camera screaming at the customer should be fired-
Now the grandmother whose son is a state trooper is a man? You have too much LBGQT on your mind.
There is a photo of her in her hospital bed.
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