Posted on 07/25/2015 8:22:59 AM PDT by digger48
HAMPTON, Va. (WAVY) — A video showing a brawl inside the Denny’s Restaurant on West Mercury Boulevard in Hampton, Virginia has already been shared over 2,000 times on Facebook.
Hampton police said the fight broke out inside the Denny’s around 2:30 a.m. Thursday.
The video posted on Facebook starts with one man, punching another on the ground. A woman tries to break it apart, but the scuffle heads to the back booths and kitchen area. At one point, a man actually rips his shirt off and pushes the other fighters toward the door.
More people get involved and try to break it up. The shirtless man starts cursing and knocks over a soda display. According to police, the fight then moved out to the parking lot.
WISH-TV’s sister station WAVY talked to a woman who did not want to be identified. She said she was eating inside the restaurant and that the video does not show how it all started.
“One of the guys had an issue with how packed it was getting and the fact that he hasn’t been served, so he made a big commotion. The commotion was toward the waitress, calling her out, her name, calling her, just being rude and disrespectful,” she said.
She said the customer went around the counter and was starting a fight with a male employee.
“The employee didn’t do anything, other than calm him down and he was being, I mean, really respectful. There was no need for all that commotion to have started…[The customer] ends up putting his hands on the worker which causes the initial fight,” she said.
When officers responded to the scene, they arrested 29-year-old Mario Wright from Newport News for allegedly assaulting an officer in the parking lot as he tried to break up the fight. They also arrested 31-year-old Albert Johnson from Newport News for public intoxication.
Staff members at Denny’s said they could not comment on the fight. A message for Denny’s corporate media department was not returned Friday.
Police said a “verbally abusive group” was inside the restaurant and that the fight did not appear to be motivated by any one reason.
One employee was hurt, but will recover, said police. The officer that was assaulted during this incident was not injured.
Officers say they expect to press more charges in this case.
Once the melee started I wonder how many bolted out the door without paying.
can you say “yo, yo”?
Good point.
Once I read Hampton Roads I knew it had to be the Urban Feral.
Teens?
Wish there was sound.
I used to be a night manager at a Denny’s “in tha hood”. Really fun when the bars closed:-)
Not in one video, but interestingly enough, you can find lots of this sort of thing at two incongruous places. World Star Hip-Hop and Stuff Black People Don’t Like.
No matter how tame you think your pet bobcat it is, it is still a wild beast which will become apparent at some inopportune time.
I usually don’t watch such videos but I watched this one. The very definition of “uncivilized”: no regard for the staff or other patrons, casual destruction of private property and (had I turned the sound up) I’m guessing a very expletive-laden vocabulary.
In my college days I did the two a.m. Denny’s breakfast quite a few times. But I was young and stupid then and the world seemed to be something of a better place.
koreans again?
The amazing thing is the frequency of such things. Denny’s at 2AM means fight.
TY. :)
Some day, enough folks will get fed up with this overall bull$h!t.
Did he dance with an overbite? That’s the only way to be sure.
We ARE back in the old days; what businesses are left in their neighborhoods? Liquor stores? Fast food dives where you receive your food through bulletproof glass?
Do I even......
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