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May 26, 2014
A brawl caught on video at a downtown Baltimore McDonald’s restaurant may have been sparked by a prank called “slap cam” that’s making the rounds online.
Melissa Gilliland, one of the victims, told 11 News reporter Kai Reed that she hopes the attackers will be recognized and punished.
The video was shot on April 28 at the McDonald’s on Howard Street in downtown Baltimore. Gilliland said that she and a friend were sleeping at one of the tables when a stranger walked up and hit her friend. She said the attack happened very quickly and was unprovoked.
“Someone came up and slapped a friend of mine in the back of the neck, hard as anything. He actually slapped him twice. I jumped up and said, ‘Why are you going to hit someone you don’t know?’ And he got in my face and said, ‘You want to go?'” Gilliland remembered. “He threw the chair and knocked (my friend) on the ground. They started kicking him and stomping on him, so I picked up the chair and I threw it and hit the guy that started it.”
The video shows the attackers then hitting Gilliland several times until she fell to the ground.
“The guy hit me once in the ear. I got hit once in the throat, and him and another guy hit me at the same time,” Gilliland said.
There were shocked faces and lots of yelling, but according to Gilliland, no one at the restaurant tried to help.
“There was a manager there — actually, I guess there was a manager and an assistant manager. Nobody stopped anything. Nobody tried to stop anything — nothing,” Gilliland said.
Gilliland said some girls in what looked like school uniforms shot the video. It was put on Facebook that same day, although she’s not sure exactly who posted it.
Several people posted comments, including mentions of a game called “slap cam,” where teenagers walk up to people, slap them and then often post the videos on the Internet.
“The police showed up about 10 minutes after. To the friend of mine, they were like, ‘Did you have a knife on you?’ That’s all they were worried about. They didn’t care what happened to us. And we were like, ‘No, we’re fine. Don’t worry about it, we’re fine.’ And we just walked off because we were so frustrated,” Gilliland said.
