Video Shows McDonald’s Worker Taunt Homeless Man, Throw Water in His Face

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Nov 11, 2015: A McDonald’s worker near Detroit has been fired for his role in a viral video that captures the moment the worker pretended to give an apparently homeless man a sandwich at a drive-thru window - and then threw water in the man’s face.

 

In the video, which has swept the Internet since it was posted on social media last week, the McDonald’s worker, who was serving customers at a drive-thru in Dearborn, called out to the man: "Hey Willie, come here! You want a sandwich?"

"Come on, let me give you a sandwich, man," he continued, gesturing for the man to come to the window.

Someone inside a vehicle - which was stopped at the window, and from which the video appeared to be shot - started to laugh, saying: "Alright, help this n-- out. Bless his a-."

When the man walked toward them, the worker held out the sandwich and the man reached for it. Then, the worker pulled it away and threw water from a cup into the man’s face.

"Oh, why you do that?" the man responded.

Then he turned around and walked into the rain.

A Facebook user named Ebhate Skeez uploaded the video Nov. 6. It included the caption: "Worrrlllldddstar this what happens to panhandlers at McDonald’s. I feel bad for laughing but that s- was funny."

But he later told Detroit’s CBS affiliate that he regretted it.

"They were actually arguing with each other and that’s what was funny to me," he said.

Ebhate Skeez could not immediately be reached for comment by The Washington Post.

The video - which has been viewed more than 4 million times on the Facebook page Mediatakeout - attracted widespread criticism and calls for the employee’s termination. Social media users say they are "horrified" and "sickened" by the video. One wrote that it "makes me want to cry."

"Where is your humanity?!" one wrote on Facebook. "The poor man is hungry. What ever happened to good people? I’m convinced that they don’t exist anymore."

Amid the outcry, the McDonald’s franchise’s owner, Wise Finley, released a statement, saying he was troubled by the unnamed employee’s behavior and was "taking appropriate action."

"I am very disturbed by the inappropriate behavior of this employee," Finley said in the statement, which was provided Tuesday to The Washington Post. "This type of behavior is not tolerated in my organization. I expect my employees to treat everyone with dignity and respect, and this was unacceptable."

Finley added: "This individual no longer works for my organization."
A corporate spokeswoman for McDonald’s declined to comment, citing a company policy against issuing statements about franchisee employees.

 

Courtesy: NDTV