A Mexican hotdog street vendor in California alleges he was harassed by a group of young women for about 40 minutes.
A fragment of the incident was filmed and posted on TikTok three days ago by a student at California State University, San Marcos, a university spokesperson told NBC News on Wednesday.
The now viral video shows four young women lined up across from the grill that the vendor, Andrés Argüelles Álvarez, was using. In the video, it shows one woman berating him for charging $7 for a hotdog at his stand near Viejas Arena at San Diego State University. Argüelles Álvarez then asked them to leave, but they refused. Instead, two of the women started grabbing and throwing the food Argüelles Álvarez was grilling, causing him to become more visibly upset.
“They grabbed my bacon with their hand, all my vegetables, everything I use,” Argüelles Álvarez told Noticias Telemundo in Spanish. “People realized all the dirty things they were doing and it disgusted them. They no longer wanted to buy more.”
The student who recorded and posted the video on TikTok said in subsequent social media posts that she doesn’t know the young women who appear in the video and explained why she didn’t intervene.
“I much rather show how these girls go out in public and act than get myself involved,” the student said.
The TikTok video of the incident has already amassed more than 2 million views as of Wednesday.
The student known on TikTok as @rileykaufman9 said in another video that Argüelles Álvarez sells hot dogs in the same spot every weekend. The student also said he “did nothing to provoke this. It was just the girls coming into it angry and drunk and ready to start something.”
“The hotdog vendor is also the sweetest man,” the student added.
The Cal State San Marcos spokesperson said that a current student and a former student were among the four women seen harassing the vendor in the video.
In a statement to NBC News, the university called the young women’s…
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