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McDonald's Employee Took Credit For Filming Brutal Beating In Baltimore Fast Food Joint

UPDATE: McDonald’s fires worker who videotaped brutal attack.

A McDonald’s worker has taken credit for filming and uploading to YouTube the latest viral video to capture a brutal assault at a fast food restaurant.

The employee, identified as Vernon Hackett on social network accounts, posted the video clip to his YouTube page earlier this week. According to his Facebook page, the 22-year-old Hackett, pictured at right, has worked for McDonald's since September 2009 .

The April 18 assault, seen below, took place at a McDonald’s location on Kenwood Avenue in Rosedale, Maryland, a Baltimore suburb. According to the Baltimore County Police Department, a 14-year-old girl has been charged as a juvenile in connection with the assault, while charges are pending against an 18-year-old woman. “The incident remains under investigation and the State’s Attorney’s Office is reviewing the case,” added investigators.

Police said the assault victim "appeared to be having a seizure" when officers arrived at the McDonald's at around 8 PM. The victim suffered cuts to the mouth and face during the attack and was transported by medics to Franklin Square Hospital for treatment, according to a police report (click to see page 1 and page 2).

The police report identifies the victim as 22-year-old Chrissy Lee Polis, who appears identical to Christopher Lee Polis, whose rap sheet includes convictions for disorderly conduct, property destruction, and prostitution, according to court records. The civil rights group Equality Maryland has identified the McDonald’s victim as a transgender woman.

Polis told police that she was walking to the restaurant’s bathroom when she “got into a verbal argument with two black females” who “began punching her in the face with their fists and pulling her hair.” A female bystander told cops that when she tried to break up the fight, the suspects punched her in the face, which “caused her to become disoriented.” Police noted that the woman, who declined medical treatment, had “redness around her right eye which is consistent with someone punching her in the face.” 

A manager at the Rosedale McDonald’s said she was “not allowed to speak to a reporter." In a corporate statement this afternoon, McDonald’s said it was “shocked by the video from a Baltimore franchise,” and called the incident “unacceptable, disturbing and troubling.” The firm added, “We are working with the franchisee and the local authorities to investigate this matter.”

As seen above, in a Facebook posting, Hackett contended that the woman seen getting beaten in the video was actually a man "dressed lik a woman" who got into a confrontation with female patrons when he refused to leave the women’s bathroom at the Baltimore-area eatery. Hackett claimed that the victim faked a seizure and, when cops arrived at the restaurant, “he got right up.”

In other Facebook messages sent Friday by Hackett (see below), he acknowledged filming the fight, denied the victim was transgendered, and claimed he had “No Hate For Anybody…No Matter Tha Gender/Race Or Sexual Preference.” Hackett exchanged messages with Facebook users who wrote him to express anger about the video and his gleeful play-by-play.

Hackett did not reply to TSG messages sent to his Twitter and Facebook pages, which he subsequently deleted late this morning. He also has deleted his YouTube channel.

Comments (164)

i guess it's a slow day in the trailer park.
They should and you need to wake up! Per the Department of Justice Blacks commit more violent crime against whites than against blacks. Forty-five percent of their victims are white, 43 percent are black, and when whites commit violent crime, only three percent of their victims are black. Please keep in mind while reading the statistics that blacks only represent approximately 13% of the population while committing over 70% of all violent crime.
you shouldn't feel bad. Drudge is linking here OMMITING ANY MENTION OF THAT SHE WAS TRANS and focusing 100% on the race aspect. Think Shirley Sherrod Part 2. Almost all of the commenters are coming directly from there and looking to kick THAT hornet's nest - truth of the facts behind the attack be damned.
Um, Notfooled (except by yourself I guess)... how does Drudge Omit anything? He posts links. I have yet to see any personal comments on his part. He supplied a link to a website that spoke for itself yet Drudge is a racist! Wow... whats it like in your world? What does the person being a trans-gender factor into this? I can understand (if this is true0 that the girls might be upset, however a 3 minute beating where they stomp on the persons head? Are you actually trying to defend this becuase the person was a guy in the girls bathroom? Again I ask... whats it like in your world?
Per the Department of Justice: Blacks commit more violent crime against whites than against blacks. Forty-five percent of their victims are white, 43 percent are black, and when whites commit violent crime, only three percent of their victims are black. Please keep in mind while reading the statistics that blacks only represent approximately 13% of the population while committing over 70% of all violent crime.
It is pretty obvious that the folks here with their over-zealous N slurs are plants. Give it up. The hate is fake, and poorly acted. Instead of projecting your own racist tendencies onto folks who are truly disgusted by these "ladies", why don't you go back to your circle jerk over at Democratic Underground.
It's true. Could be a lot of democrats making these comments.
come on now, who do you hate more blacks or trannies ? i know it's tough, but you must decide .
i guess you'd really hate a black tranny, let's assume the tranny is white though.
The DA should file criminal hate crime charges against anyone who placed there hands on that women. The DA should make an example out of this case. One can't just beat a person because of there sexual orientation and if she is post operation she is legally a women now. This is a sad example of where we are in our society. God bless the manager and the older women who attempted to stop the violence.