An Antioch fast-food restaurant manager said Thursday that she felt compelled to help a teen with special needs from being bullied, even as doing so cost her an eye.
said Thursday that she felt compelled to help a teen with special needs from being bullied, even as doing so cost her an eye. , 19, after she told him to stop harassing the teenage boy inside a Habit Burger restaurant.
A 19-year-old manager of Habit Burger in Antioch lost her right eye when she was repeatedly punched allegedly by a customer whom she had told to leave the restaurant for bullying a child with special needs. Video shows the man walking into the restaurant. Palomera says he saw the special-needs teen and began bullying him.
He hit her again. She thinks this second punch was the one that destroyed her eye. But she didn’t know it at first.
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