Kalamazoo, Michigan Domino’s Pizza Employee Assaulted on Video
UPDATE: Kalamazoo County Sheriff's Department is investigating and working to identify the man caught on video punching a Kalamazoo Domino's Pizza Employee in the face. What's the real story?
On Monday, March 10th, Security video caught what appears to be a violent attack on a fast food worker at the Domino's Pizza on Gull Road in Kalamazoo. The video has no audio making it difficult to understand what started the altercation.
The first thing I noticed, as the three suspects approached the Domino's Pizza window, one woman was already recording video with her phone.
Within 6 seconds of approaching the window, the white male wearing gray sweatpants, a white tee shirt, and a black hat punched an employee in the face.
Less than 10 seconds after the punch, the bearded man aggressively attempted to force the locked door open with no success. He then forced the window open and appeared to shout at employees and rear his arm back in a punching motion before walking away. The entire situation lasted less than one minute.
Members of the Kalamazoo Informed Facebook group were able to identify both women involved. Since we have been unable to confirm their identities with 100% certainty, we will not publish their names at this time. As far as we can tell, no one has identified the man who was seen punching an employee on the video.
We don't know for sure what triggered this violence. But a couple of people in the comments of the Facebook video claim to know what happened. Justin Hockey, who posted this video in the private Facebook group had this to say,
Whoever does know them the police are looking for them. Not to mention after this incident they followed the workers to the gas station to get into another altercation! People are certainly disgusted all this over their pizza being late
Zack Edwards commented in the private Kalamazoo Informed group that he knows the people and why it happened,
I know all three of them. I was present when that worker cussed the man's 12-year-old daughter out on the phone. He then got on the phone and had words with the guy. The worker told him if he came up there he’d kick his a**. Also what the camera doesn’t show is the worker saying f*** you before he tried spitting towards him. There are always 2 sides to a story.
I viewed one video filmed from the inside of the store and one from the outside. Both videos refute the statement from Edwards and are more in line with the General Manager's statement below,
There wasn't anyone that spoke to a 12-year-old child. I was the delivery driver that night, covering for my driver, and we were running about one hour and 20 minutes late. My associate called her to tell her it would be delayed. After a while, she called back and some type of verbal altercation took place. She called him a lot of slurs and choice words and he did swear at her. I returned to the store, to find him walking up to the window and surprise attacking my worker. I went to de-escalate and he wound up to hit me as well. The woman seems to have stopped him.
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The video of the incident has been removed from the Kalamazoo Informed Facebook group by its original poster.
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