McDonald’s Worker Viciously Beats Two Unruly Female Customers: Was He Justified?

October 17th, 2011 - By madamenoire

So on Friday night, while relaxing at home, glancing at the news on television, I saw one of the craziest YouTube videos I’ve seen in a long time. People fighting and having amateur videographers capture it on their cellular phones is nothing out of the ordinary, but this fight at McDonald’s last Wednesday was something that was way too extreme for me.

According to CNN, and as you can see on the video, while ringing up two women at the cash register in a McDonald’s franchise in Greenwich Village, 31-year-old Rayon McIntosh questions a $50 bill the women try to give him for their purchase. It’s not really clear why or how things escalate, but as obscenities are hurled his way, one of the two women reaches across the counter and slaps McIntosh in the face. After that, things go really left.

He must have said or done something to defend himself in a manner that the women didn’t appreciate, because one of the women jumps the counter (I’m not kidding, check the video), threatens him and then follows him into the kitchen area. The other woman finds her way around the counter to help her friend confront the man, and all hell breaks loose. McIntosh is seen picking up what looks like a metal rod and starts swinging fast and viciously at both women until they both fell on the ground. It doesn’t stop there though. When they try to get up, he hits them harder. Not only can you hear people in the restaurant screaming for the man to stop, but you can also hear the sound of the rod making contact–really hard contact–with the women’s bodies. The women, Denise Darbeau and Rachael Edwards, both 24, were taken to the hospital with cuts on their head and face. One of the individuals’ head was fractured, and her arm was broken in the attack. As last reported by CNN, they remain in the hospital in serious condition. Both Darbeau and Edwards were charged with menacing, criminal trespass and disorderly conduct.

It has come out that McIntosh was previously in imprisoned on manslaughter charges. I think my first reaction after hearing that and watching this video was, “Wow, this brother just messed things up for a lot of rehabilitated individuals trying to get employment out here…” For his role in the attack, McIntosh was charged with felony assault and is being held on $40,000 bond.

I don’t know about anyone else, but it’s incidents like this, and many others that I’ve seen, which cause me not to mess with or talk crazy to people I don’t know. There are too many people out here having out-of-body experiences and losing it for anyone to get too comfortable trying to play Mr. or Mrs. Get Bad.

There have been a lot of people commenting on blogs and on news sites like CNN and The Wall Street Journal who are saying that McIntosh was justified in defending himself in the manner that he did. Do you agree? Also, the father of one of the victims appeared on television the other night and said a man with a record like McIntosh shouldn’t have been able to work that close with people as a cashier at all. What do you think about that statement? Do share!

To see the video of the attack, continue to CNN. We do warn you though, it is disturbing.

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  • http://www.facebook.com/jason.smith.18847876 Jason Shane Smith

    He could have handled it better but still, he didn’t have time to call the cops before they attacked him. The customers stood there and did nothing the workers did nothing to help him or stop them. He was in a situation where it was be beat or beat. I think he was justified and the workers should have been fired for allowing this mess to happen and the women should have been imprisoned. He may have had a record and for that he should not have worked with people like that but this time was not his fault.

  • 1wine69

    The women ATTACKED HIM!!!! Why do women think they have a free pass to attack a man? He maybe went a little too far in his response and should have gotten arestted. The charges were/are too harsh.

    They went behind the counter to attack him, that is the central point.

  • Irenereyesirenereyes

    betcha they will think twice b4 opening their mouths up at ANY mcdonalds…lol

  • Irenereyesirenereyes

    MAN-SLAUGHTER?????????????????????? WOWWWWW AND THEY HAD HIM AS CASHIER????…SHITTTTTT, ANYBODY COULD HAVE GOTTEN BEAT!!! THIS WORLD IS CRAZY!!!!

  • Paxtonrhodes

    That video is disturbing…

    ly hilarious.

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/J3FJRCAQHWMC56PZ7TTPIIVN6Y MissEu27

    People with prior felonies do not all fall under the typical stereotypes. Do realize that some innocent people have been previously charge & convicted, thus we should not discriminate upon decision to hire. This man had a right to defend himself; however, he did not have to beat the breaks off of these rowdy women. He simply should have stopped after they were on the ground, guard himself in case they attacked again, and shouted for someone to call 911.

  • Attila X

     This is what you have to say about this incident? How about calling attention to the fact that this is the kind of reaction one brings upon oneself when acting “ghetto”, and you damn well know what I’m talking about: people who think they’re acting “real”, by dispensing with social graces and ettiquette that serve as a sort of buffer between one’s inner neanderthal and society as a whole. Kids–and shockingly, some adults–are increasingly thinking this is the way to behave in society, that this somehow shows you are “keeping it real”, when actually this is nothing more than a lack of manners, a lack of discipline, and a painfully clear indicator that a person that behaves in this manner has no place in society, as such behavior reveals you to be nothing but a cancerous lesion on the corpus of civilization. Clearly, if this is how you need to act, then you need to be in an insititution or behind bars–the majority of people are decent, working class folk who don’t need to deal with this kind of classless barbarism–and take a wild guess as to whom I’m referring to in this instance? –It’s not the guy who wailed on these hood rats!!! IT’S THE WOMEN THEMSELVES!!! Yes, what he did was unacceptable, but they clearly brought it upon themselves. He was doing his job, they hounded him when he inspected the legal tender–something most of us are familiar with in customer service, either from the customer end or the worker end–they FOLLOWED him BEHIND the counter! They SLAPPED HIM! He walked away, he tried to deal the best way he knew how! This guy TRIED, until he just couldn’t take it anymore, since they persisted in harassing the guy. It’s unfortunate it developed the way it did, but these rats inarguably provoked him. I’ve grow up with this behavior, seen it for fricking decades, and have witnessed it across the nation–I’m fed up with it! It is in no way acceptable, and don’t think for a second that people who conduct themselves this way will ever find themselves perfectly accepted into general society! Adapt or perish–it’s just as applicable to society’s norms as it is to the wilds of nature. THAT is “keeping it real”, telling it like it TRULY is. And before anyone goes into a tirade about how I must be “white” and don’t know hjow things “really are”, let me stop you right there–I’m not, and I know very well just how it is. I just made the choice to make something better of myself, and not behave this way. I’m one of you. We need to be the change we want to see in the world, instead of expecting the rest of the world to change before we make an effort, and stop using excuses. But I suspect this post will be too “real”, and won’t get posted by the moderators. All I’m saying is, it’s up to us to better ourselves and not, for instance, behave like THIS.

  • Caramelcocolove

    When I go to work, Im hoping to be safe. This man was fighting TWO women who were definitely acting out of character, then when they get their faces busted, NOW they crying victim.   WTF r they crazy…..   He should DEFINITELY SUE MCDONALDS FOR NOT KEEPING EMPLOYEES SAFE

  • RM

    He was justified in defending himself. Those girls, for a lack of a better word, were the aggressors. When incidents happen to other people,we sit back and always say what we would have done. No one knows what they would do,unless they were in that situation. Also, the reason this young man had served time in the past because of a accidental shooting of his friend when he was a teenager. What a miscarriage of justice if he gets time for this. I pray he will one day be able to live his life without judgements. On another note, that girls father who spoke about his daughter knows that he raised a hoodlum. I guarantee they won’t get in no one else’s face again. Sorry Served Them Right!

  • Ngoziemereonye

    “but it’s incidents like this, and many others that I’ve seen, which cause me not to mess with or talk crazy to people I don’t know”.   Thats just it, the 2 ladies had no business slapping the guy and then jumping over the counter to pursue and chase after the guy and I do not support what he had done but looking at what happened the young man really had no choice but to defend himself in that way a lesson was learned, the women are lucky they weren’t killed.

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  • hrbrnz

    He had all the right in the world to defend himself.  Those were not small petite women they were big enough to put a hurting on him.  The father says he shouldn’t be working as a cashier, whiy? he shouldn’t have to defend himself from being assaulted while working, trying to make a lliving.  The only ones that should have been charged with battery is the two hood rats, they hit him and went after him behind the cash register where they should not have been.

  • E. Easel

    If someone jumped the counter like they about to do something and the other one is coming around, I’d fight back, too. I don’t care if it’s a man or a woman. That’s another thing, if a woman gets in a man’s face like she’s ready to throw down, then he needs to fight her like she a man. I’m getting sick and tired of these women (I’m a woman too, by the way) playing with these men like they’re not supposed to do anything and are just supposed to stand there and take the abude. Sure, a man shouldn’t hit a woman, but if she’s aggressive and trying to fight him then he needs to fight back.

  • http://www.facebook.com/andrea.knox3 Andrea Knox

    I think its bull that this man is in jail. As a female my mother said never hit a man unless u want to get hit back, but she taught my brother to always walk away from any female drama. How did this guy know, they wasnt following him because they had a weapon! I bet they wont climb any more counters again!!!! FOr the father of the victim to say, he shouldnt have been working as a cashier, thats BS, Prison is a punishment and a form of rehab. Rehab helps people change and do better. How can anyone do better if they are being pushed….Sorry if he was a women and he beat them with a metal rod….he wouldnt be in jail..PERIOD

  • angryersmell

    Don’t start none, won’t be none.

    • angryersmell

      Slighted Patron #1: “Excuse me, sir, but that is indeed an authentic $50 bill. Please advise your manager that we wish to discuss this matter with him or her to resolve this obvious misunderstanding.”

      Slighted Patron #2: “Quite so. Though I am offended at the accusation that we would pass off a counterfeit bill as true currency, I accept that we may have inadvertently picked one up, and look forward to bringing in a seasoned professional who more than likely has resolved similar situations in the past.”

      Mr. McIntosh: “My apologies, but as part of my job, I am instructed to immediately identify any bills which I find suspect, no matter how trustworthy the customer attempting to pay with said bill might appear. I will call my manager immediately in the hopes we can resolve this situation to our mutual satisfaction.”

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Goldie-Treasure/100001545308532 Goldie Treasure

    Obviously this psycho has anger issues hello he was locked up already before for manslaughter. It is ok to defend yourself but he took it way too far, I hope he gets locked back up. Mc Donalds and those type of jobs always hire the worst people.