Taco Bell security guard caught on video slapping female customer in shocking incident

Viral video shows Los Angeles Taco Bell's security guard forcefully slapping woman after she refuses to leave.

A security guard at a Taco Bell in California was caught on video forcefully slapping a disruptive customer who refused to leave the restaurant on Sunday.  

Footage captures the woman walking away from the security guard at a Los Angeles Taco Bell location before heading toward a self-service kiosk to place her order.  

‘A security guard at a Taco Bell in downtown Los Angeles was filmed slapping a woman inside the restaurant on February 9. Witness Alejandro Sanchez, 29, said the woman was ordering food when the guard told her to leave before suddenly striking her.’

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The male security guard, who is noticeably larger than the customer, then approaches her, squares up, and delivers a strong slap across her face.  

Alejandro Sanchez, who recorded the viral video, told SWNS, "The security guard was telling her to leave, and she didn’t want to because she was ordering food. Then he just went off, and she started going crazy."  

"He slapped the s–t out of her. It was crazy. Everybody was shocked," Sanchez added.  

After being struck, the young woman clutched her face in shock before walking to the other end of the restaurant, away from the guard.  

The security guard followed her as she continued holding her face, standing beneath a television airing the Super Bowl. The two exchanged heated words before he ultimately escorted her out, as seen in the video.  

"There’s a Skid Row a couple of blocks away from there, and they just have a lot of traffic," Sanchez, a regular at the Taco Bell location, told SWNS, speculating whether the incident stemmed from the woman appearing "homeless."  

He also noted that Taco Bell employees seemed more focused on stopping him from recording the altercation than on addressing the slap itself.