The fast-food chain Taco Bell is facing a lawsuit filed by two customers who claim one of its employees poured scalding water on them after they went to the counter to contest their orders.
Now the victims are claiming they suffered from severe burns, according to NBC News.
The reported victims, both Black, are Brittany Davis and a minor, C.T., who retained the services of civil rights attorney Ben Crump and Paul A. Grinke of McCathern Law.
The incident happened at the Taco Bell located at 11829 Abrams Road in Dallas, where they placed their order through the drive-thru and then entered the establishment to address the incorrect food orders, KXXV reports.
The lawsuit, filed July 13 in a Dallas County district court, describes the manager as a Hispanic female, according to KXXV.
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Both women suffered severe burns when the manager poured hot water on them when they complained about their food order, the lawsuit reports, according to NBC News.
The restaurant’s security video was publicly released without audio. The employee appears to hold a pitcher of liquid as the steam wafts off the top as she talks on her mobile phone, making her way to the counter where the customers are standing and douses them with the heated fluid, NBC News reports.
Crump and Grinke were able to acquire the video through a court order.
“Taco Bell management and employees’ actions in these videos are violent, callous, and inexcusable,” Grinke said in a statement on Friday.
“C.T. and her aunt, Brittany, restaurant employees themselves, calmly ask for the food they paid for with their with hard-earned money. Rather than simply resolve the concern, the Taco Bell employees taunt a 16-year-old, and the manager ambushes them with scalding water.”
Source: Video Shows Taco Bell Employees Allegedly Pouring Piping Hot Water On Customers
