The disturbing video below shows a women being beaten by two other women as McDonald employees do virtually nothing to help her. While a manager makes a minimal effort to stop the fight, he then walks away and does not offer help to the woman on the ground. The girls then return and resume the beating. Other employees are shown doing nothing but watching the scene. The attack occurred in Baltimore, Maryland. The victim has now been identified as Chrissy Lee Polis, 22, who has been identified as a transgender woman. A manager at the Rosedale McDonald’s said she was “not allowed to speak to a reporter.”
According to reports, a 14-year-old female has been charged as a juvenile while charges are pending against an 18-year-old female.
The question is the liability of McDonald’s for this type of passivity. Companies often tell employees not to get involved in fights but simply call police. However, here the McDonald’s employees are not even showing any interest in helping the woman when the fight stopped. Liability, however, will remain a difficult course if the manager called the police –which is viewed as the minimally required response. However, this is not a case of any affirmative duty to rescue — where the American rule is that no such duty exists absent responsibility for the original danger or injury. This woman is a business invitee and the company bears responsibility for the safe conditions for customers. McDonald’s must also anticipate criminal acts. However, no law requires a manager to physically intervene. What is most disturbing is the absence of anyone rendering aid to this woman.
The fact is that this manager may be doing exactly what McDonald’s wants employees to do: nothing. It will be interesting to see if McDonald’s instructs managers not to render aid in in such circumstances.
The manager encourages the attackers to flee before the police arrive. He can certainly defend this advice as simply a way to remove the dangerous individuals from the scene. However, it would have been more convincing if it was combined with a modicum of concern for the victim.
McDonald’s seems a common site for violence, including additional stories this week. One has to wonder how long the employee, identified as Vernon Hackett, on social network accounts, posted the video clip to his YouTube page earlier who took and posted the video has as an employee with the Golden Arches.
There is no word on what is being done to find the culprits. There have also been suggestions that the attack was racially motivated. The incident involved two young black women repeatedly attacking an older white woman.
McDonald’s released the following statement:
“We are shocked by the video from a Baltimore franchised restaurant showing an assault. This incident is unacceptable, disturbing and troubling. McDonald’s strives to be a safe, welcoming environment for everyone who visits. Nothing is more important to us than the safety of customers and employees in our restaurants. We are working with the franchisee and the local authorities to investigate this matter.”
Notably, the company made no mention of the failure to help the patron or what its policy or training says about addressing such incidents.
OS,
I think there’s a good chance the face is that it was a transgendered individual who was attacked. But that, friendo, is entirely beside the point.
The point is that none of the links you posted are in any way examples of good reporting, or authoritative in any manner.
As I showed (with geometric logic sport), every single one of your links was exactly the same, a report from the guy with the cellphone, and a non-authoritative statement from the guy cellphone.
Now, I would prefer a slightly non-civil tone on the comments, than the wrong comments you posted that you claimed to be authoritative.
And yes, uncivil tone? Sometimes that happens when I hear people justify brutality based on partial orders of functions of race, creed, color, gender, gender identification, age, race, race, race, history, and what their friends sed and tuld them.
anon, follow the news stories. One us is going to be proven wrong and the other right. Stay tuned, it is not over yet.
And by the way, there is no reason for the visceral venomous tone of your comments. You sound as if you have a problem there, sport. Not becoming at all on a blog known for its civil tone.
OS, look at the wonderful comments in joemygods’ column and appreciate the beauty of people who place partial orderings on who gets to beat up who.
OS, you write, more information here: “http://www.lgbtpov.com/2011/04/trans-woman-beaten-has-seizure-as-mcdonalds-employees-watch/comment-page-1/”
But that links has almost exactly no more information than the kos link you linked to. It again goes to billerico. just like before.
The new information is from Maryland Equality quoting one representative saying nothing more than “”It does appear that the victim was a transgender woman, and she was brutalized while people stood by and watched,” said Lisa Polyak,”
Who then goes on to say this is a hate crime, because you OS agree that beating up an old white male should not be seen as a hate crime.
Your second link AGAIN goes to exactly the same information, and the same vague not authoritative Lisa Polyak.
Your third link does the same damn thing.
And so you justify your retweeting your non-authoritative justification of why this is a hate crime but beating up someone else is not by FOUR or more times retweeting links that prove exactly nothing and rely on one tweet from the guy with the cellphone who did nothing more to stop this.
I don’t know if the victim was transgendered or not, I know nothing here is demonstrative of anything but idiocy. Idiocy in the media. And your own idiocy in retweeting bogusness multiple times and claiming that all these retweets of the same source means its authoritative.
More here.
http://joemygod.blogspot.com/2011/04/maryland-trans-woman-brutally-attacked.html
More information here:
http://www.lgbtpov.com/2011/04/trans-woman-beaten-has-seizure-as-mcdonalds-employees-watch/comment-page-1/
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/baltimore-city/bs-md-ci-viral-video-mcdonalds-20110422,0,4613709.story
Otteray Scribe, you are the person making the claim. The burden of proof is on you.
Your claim is from some random person at Kos from someone else from someone else relying on a facebook update (or similar) from what some would call a perpetrator and hardly an unbiased witness.
Why would you think the burden of proof is on me to show the victim is not transgender?
Why do you say P(transgender) > P(genetic woman).
What is your null hypothesis and what evidence do you have to ignore that?
Let’s say it was some old white guy, why do you write this:
“It looks as if all the speculation about this assault being racially motivated was just so many horse apples. This was, in some ways, worse. Attacks on GLBT people seem to be on the increase. I fail to understand the hatred. It boggles the mind. Transpeople seem to catch the brunt of stuff that not even gay and lesbian people have to face.”
I fail to see why you place a partial ordering on brutal acts against individuals based on race, creed, color, religion, gender, identified gender, …, but I am curious enough to ask if you can lay that partial ordering out for us.
anon: ARE YOU SAYING THE REPORT IS FALSE? IF IT IS FALSE SAY SO. IF IT IS TRUE, THEN LET US HEAR THAT TOO. IF YOU KNOW.
Otteray Scribe, Danielle,
NOT THAT IT MATTERS IN ANY MANNER, BUT THERE IS ONLY PERSON SAYING THAT THE WOMAN WAS TRANSGENDERED AND THAT WAS THE GUY WITH THE CELLPHONE.
What you read on Kos is unsubstantiated. What they linked to was an unsubstantiated report. What that report linked to was an unsubstantiated claim made by the asshole with the cellphone.
SO WHERE THE FUCK DO YOU GET OFF JUST RETWEETING THAT?
THERE IS ONLY PERSON SAYING THAT THE WOMAN WAS TRANSGENDERED AND THAT WAS THE GUY WITH THE CELLPHONE.
THERE IS ONLY PERSON SAYING THAT THE WOMAN WAS TRANSGENDERED AND THAT WAS THE GUY WITH THE CELLPHONE.
THERE IS ONLY PERSON SAYING THAT THE WOMAN WAS TRANSGENDERED AND THAT WAS THE GUY WITH THE CELLPHONE.
Please, don’t be a dumbass. Just say no (thank you.)
Ya know, I used to rape bitches who dressed asking for it, and I was shunned. So I switched to beating up on the transgendered.
It looks as if all the speculation about this assault being racially motivated was just so many horse apples. This was, in some ways, worse. Attacks on GLBT people seem to be on the increase. I fail to understand the hatred. It boggles the mind. Transpeople seem to catch the brunt of stuff that not even gay and lesbian people have to face.
Despicable.
OS….Thank-you for the link. Although I don;t know how ” thankful ” I am to have had the opportunity to read it. What a wonderful world it will be when all people can just live for themselves and not concern themselves with others!
‘ Unless it’s a group of teen-aged girls ” Blouise
So true!!
I just learned that the cause of the attack was when the victim, a tranwoman, tried to use the women’s bathroom.
More here:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/04/22/969470/-Attack-on-Transwoman-at-McDonalds,-While-Employees-Film
“I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again…..there is nothing meaner than a teen-aged girl!!!” (Canadian Eh!)
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Unless it’s a group of teen-aged girls!
” or simply that the girls were just plain ol’ mean bitches, ”
….Buddha
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again…..there is nothing meaner than a teen-aged girl!!!
All joking aside….
” Unless it was self-defense or in defense of another? There is never a valid reason for beating another human being. Ever ” …Buddha
Well said my friend.
p.s. you may want to check your e-mail!
Buddha,
I especially like your last sentence. No matter what may or may not have happened prior to the beating; there is no excuse for their continued actions. They need to be learning a hard lesson behind bars.