People are calling for the closure of a UK beauty supply store after a viral video showed a staff member restraining a Black woman as she tried to fight him off.
The incident happened at Peckham Hair and Cosmetics, located in London, on Monday, Sept. 11, around 1 p.m., according to a post on X, formerly known as Twitter. In the video, a man grabbed a woman’s neck as they re-entered the store.
The woman — sporting a white T-shirt and leggings and holding multiple packs of hair — hit the man in the head with a green shopping basket. The staff member continued to hold her neck and then put her arms around her back as the woman struggled to escape his grip.
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“I’m going to call the police,” a bystander said in the background.
The woman urged the bystander to record the incident and call law enforcement.
“Call the f**king police,” the woman repeated. “This man strangled me! Get the f**k off me!”
It’s unclear what led to this incident based on the video. The social media user who originally shared the video on Instagram said the woman went into the store to request a refund before the physical altercation erupted.
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“The woman went to ask them for a refund, and the man who can be seen on video hanging her became aggressive with her, the woman on bad terms left the store and he proceeded to drag her into the store and everything became very murky, this was recorded with the camera of my iPhone,” the eyewitness, user @la_burbuu, wrote in the caption.
The store’s owner, Sohail Sindho, told My London, a news website, that the woman came to the business to ask for a refund on hair she’d purchased, but he informed her that the store doesn’t offer refunds. Sindho claims the woman “started to be…
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