Tuesday, April 19, 2011

Three People Struck by Car During Fight at McDonalds' Hiring Event

Most of this local news footage is interviews with witnesses, but then it gets down to some nasty actual footage of what happened . . . which does not appear to be an accident.

Here's more on the story from Fox 8 in Cleveland:
Three people were struck by a car and two others were arrested after a fight broke out at a McDonald's during their "National Day of Hiring."    It's an event aimed at hiring thousands of local people, but police say a fight between two women got out of control.

"I was filling out my application when I saw two girls fighting," said Joseph Shores, an eyewitness. "I don't know their names, but they were fighting over drama, hood stuff."

The fight went down at the McDonald's located on East 105th and St. Clair.  Police say the fight was over a boy, and it started verbally and escalated into a physical fight that spilled into the crowd.

After that, witnesses say, the unthinkable happened.  "One girl was on top of the driver, beating her. Then the driver went forward, somehow it kicked into reverse, and the car went backwards, hitting three people. It was crazy!" said Arnecia Patterson.

Another eyewitness, Antoine Grey, captured the incident on his cell phone and showed it exclusively to Fox 8 News.