*The woman seen in a viral video viciously beating up a female taco vendor in Los Angeles on Aug. 6, then taking off in a purple Lexus without paying for her food, has been arrested and fired from her job.
Renee Hines, 36, from Bakersfield, was taken into custody Wednesday (Aug. 9) and booked into the Los Angeles County jail on a charge of assault with a deadly weapon, the Los Angeles Police Department said in a statement.
Hines also was fired from her job as a temporary contractor after her employer learned of the viral video. Yusen Logistics America, a global supply chain company based in New Jersey, told the Los Angeles Times it terminated a work agreement with Hines, who had been assigned to the firm by her employer, Simplified Labor Staff Solutions.
“We were alerted to an online video of a temporary worker whom her employer had assigned to work at one of our warehouses,” a statement from Yusen said. “This person is no longer assigned to work at our company and will not be allowed to return to any of our facilities.” The company added it “does not condone violence of any kind.”
Watch video of the incident below:
The incident took place around 6:35 p.m. Sunday at Tacos Ortiz on Grandee Avenue in Los Angeles’ Watts neighborhood. Police said Hines “punched and pepper sprayed” vendor Joanna Vasquez after she requested payment for the tacos that she’d ordered and eaten. Cellphone footage captured by Vasquez’s co-worker shows Hines yanking on Vasquez’s shirt while repeatedly punching the much smaller woman and calling her a “b**ch.”
Source: Black Taco Vendor Attacker from Viral Video Arrested, Loses Job | WATCH
