A former manager at Popeyes Chicken named Marquez Smith is in the grips of the police and charged with battery and first-degree cruelty to children after slapping an underage female employee in the face for a reason yet to be established.
Marquez Smith is 20 while the female employee is 17 according to MSN;
Video from the inside the fast-food restaurant details a moment leading up to the incident, where Smith approaches the teenager while she was using her cell phone near a cash register, behind the counter. At the moment, it remains unclear what they began to argue about, but it is being speculated that the quarrel stems from Smiths’ unwillingness to allow his former employee to clock out.
The verbal spat culminated when Smith struck his former co-worker with an open-handed slap. From there, the two locked eyes and assumed sparring stances as if they were about to exchange blows. At that point, another employee rushed in and separated the two, before things could escalate.
The occurrence took place in the city of Bainbridge, Georgia, earlier in the week, but the fight is far from over. The teenage victim has already lawyered up and her legal team recently released a statement regarding the matter at hand.
“We are still investigating the events of May 30, 2022,” wrote the Gee & Lee Law Firm. “However, it is completely unacceptable for any employee to be subjected to the physical and verbal abuse captured on video, let alone a teenager. A teenage employee should never have to face the cruel and abusive behavior witnessed in that video.”
When you are only five feet tall you are going to have a lot of anger issues. I am sure they called him Gary Coleman behind his back when he was looking. Probably hit him with a “whatcha talking bout Willis” and he never forgot it.
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