Woman suing Atlanta Popeye’s following alleged drive-thru assault

a Metro Atlanta woman left home to go get food for her family and she returned absolutely traumatized and now she's fought a lawsuit after what she called a life-changing attack that left her like this attorney sat beside their client today or Adam Murphy was there after police arrested three restaurant employees at the Popeyes on Cleveland Avenue in southwest Atlanta customer denitra Dawson is taking legal action I still don't understand his life why me according to the legal complaint Dawson placed an order at the drive-through and when she realized the order was wrong she asked them to correct it they come out they come out of the restaurant she remains in her car and their objective in the furtherance of Popeye's business their objective is to get her to move her car so that they can keep the line moving so that they don't get in trouble with Popeyes their employer Dawson's legal team said she waited at the window for her order and that's when three employees including a manager allegedly walked outside and attacked us and inside her car and ripped out her hair when she would not move out of the drive-through line one of the employees physically opens up her passenger side car door enters her vehicle jumps into her car and begins to attack her two other employees including the manager then open up her car door and they're all converging on her beating her punching her scratching her and Atlanta police report says two employees were charged with battery and another with obstruction of an officer the legal team said Popeyes failed to do background checks on the employees involved their investigation found that the manager tenister Evans had a criminal history in 2013 she was convicted of assault in 2016 another conviction of assault and multiple other criminal convictions so Atlanta news first went to the owner of the business 755 restaurant corporation and they had no comment telling us their legal team is handling the matter the only thing that ends this attack is that Miss Dawson is able to get access to her purse where she has her licensed firearm and she's able to produce that firearm and it's only after she produces a firearm that the assault stops Adam Murphy Atlanta news first

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Published: Sat Aug 05 2023