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WEBVTT MCDONALD'S IN DELRAY BEACH WHEREIT ALL TOOK PLACE.ARI?ARI: EMPLOYEES HERE AT THISMCDONALD'S IS THAT THEY ARE NOTALLOWED TO TALK TO US ABOUT WHATHAPPENED BUT AS YOU SAID, THEYWERE PLENTY OF CUSTOMERS INSIDEWHEN THE FIGHT BROKE OUT.JUST AS IT WAS ABOUT TO STARTONE OF THE CUSTOMERS PULLED OUTTHEIR PHONE AND PUSHED RECORD.THINGS GOT HEATED IN THE KITCHENOF THIS DELRAY BEACH MCDONALD'SSUNDAY NIGHT.TWO EMPLOYEES THROWING PUNCHES,PULLING HAIR.A CUSTOMER VIDEOED THE ENTIRETHING.LET'S FREEZE THAT VIDEO FOR ASECOND.POLICE IDENTIFY THE WOMAN ON THERIGHT AS JENNIFER DAOUT.THE WOMAN ON THE LEFT IS ALEXUSDUTERVIL.DUTERVIL DECLINED AN ON CAMEINTERVIEW ABOUT THIS, BUT HERMOTHER TELLS ME HER DAUGHTER WASACTUALLY TRYING TO STOP A FIGHT.SHE SAYS DAOUT WAS ARGUING WITHTHE MANAGER ABOUT WORK HOURS ANDIT STARTED TO GET TENSDUTERVIL TRIED TO BREAK IT UPAND IT BECAME THISDELRAY BEACH POLICE EVENTUALLYSHOWED UP AND THEY ARRESTEDJENNIFER DAOUT, CHARGING HERWITH BATTERY.SHE SPENT A FEW HOURS AT THEPALM BEACH COUNTY JAIL AND WASRELEASED EARLY MONDAY MORNINDAOUT ALSO DECLINED AN ON CAMERAINTERVIEW, SAYING ONLY SONLY WISHES THE VIDEO WASN'T OUTTHERE, SAYING THIS HAS ALLGOTTEN OUT OF CONTROL.LATE MONDAY, RESTAURANT OWNERRICKY WADE RELEASED A STATEMENT,SAYING, WE ARE SHOCKED BY THEBEHAVIOR IN THIS VIDEO.IT IS ABSOLUTELY UNACCEPTABLE.WE ARE LOOKING INTO THE MATTERAND WILL TAKE THE APPROPRIATEACTIONRIGHT NOW IT IS NOT CLEAR WITHTHOSE APPROPRIATE ACTIONS MAYBE,

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A new video captured one McDonald's worker attacking another employee during an argument Sunday night at a Delray Beach location. The customer was eating dinner at a McDonald's restaurant off Military Trail and Atlantic Avenue and decided to record the altercation on a cellphone camera. + Video: Watch, McDonald's employees fight at Delray Beach location here Witnesses said a group of employees were arguing when one employee lost her temper, went behind the counter and apparently started throwing punches and pulling the hair of a co-worker. The Delray Beach Police Department confirmed that one employee, Jennifer Daout, 20, of Delray Beach, was arrested. According to a police report, Daout, faces one simple battery charge after she allegedly got into a fight with her co-worker, Alexus Dutervil. Daout was told to go home by the manager, Fiona Pierson, but didn't. Daout became upset and started a verbal argument with Pierson, the police report said. During the argument Daout grabbed a tray from a table where another employee, Re'sandra Stewart, was near. Once Dutervil took the tray from Daout and told her not to hit Stewart, an argument erupted between the two women. "You don't know who I am," Daout said, per the police report. I'll (expletive) you up." The police report said Daout threw a muffin holder at Dutervil, hit Dutervil's forehead repeatedly with her finger and punched Dutervil on the head. A fight ensued between Dutervil and Daout and a customer ended up recording it. According to the police report, Dutervil fled to the back of the restaurant and then outside, but Daout continued to follow her. While outside, Daout hit Dutervil in her face and arm with a grill cleaner. Daout continued fighting Dutervil until Dutervil ran to the front of the burger joint and locked her out. A patron inside the establishment saw Daout banging on the door, and unlocked it, allowing her to enter. Police noted that Dutervil had lacerations on the front of her neck, on her left arm below her elbow and a scratch on her left forearm. Daout had a small laceration above her right eye. Daout denied physically touching Dutervil to police. Jeff Nelson, a customer, saw the video on social media and referred to it as "strange." "(It) seemed a little crazy to me for the employees to be fighting with each other," Nelson said. "Hopefully they fire the people that started the fight and get on with their business." Nelson isn't the only person who disapproves of the incident."We are shocked by the behavior in this video," Ricky Wade, the owner and operator of the McDonald's branch, said. "It is absolutely unacceptable. We are looking into the matter and will take the appropriate actions."