Chikesia Clemons - Violent Arrest of Black Woman at Waffle House Sparks Protests The customer was tackled to the ground in a scuffle after refusing to pay extra for utensils

WEST SACRAMENTO CA (IFS) -- The Ups and Downs of the Waffle House Chain.  From having a hero at one store, to total disgrace by the police in another one.  Her name is Chikesia Clemons, and she is be brutalized by the police for asking why she should pay for utensils for her food order.  The violence is compacted by these "crazy racist white cops" as they undressed her and pushed her nude body onto the ground.  This is not normal people.  This is an assault and battery by the police and no one is speaking out about this salvage attack.

 

  Waffle House

by Daniela Galarza Apr 23, 2018, 1:16pm   

A Waffle House customer was tackled to the ground and arrested after refusing to pay extra for utensils, according to the Washington Post. The incident took place on Sunday, less than two weeks after the arrests of two black customers at Starbucks — which also spurred protests with calls of hypocrisy directed at the coffee company — and on the same day as a shooting at a Waffle House in Nashville, Tennessee.

A partial video of the situation shows officers grabbing 25-year-old Chikesia Clemons’s neck and wrist. After a scuffle, her top falls off of her upper body, exposing her chest. She ends up on the floor while trying to explain the disagreement she had with employees. Clemons’s mother told Al.com that she had refused to pay an extra 50 cents for set of plastic cutlery. 

“What are you doing?” Clemons asks, on the video.

“I’ll break your arm, that’s what I’m about to do,” an officer says. The officer then puts his hand on her neck.

“You’re choking me!” Clemons says.

Protesters filled the Waffle House location in Alabama on Sunday afternoon.

The president of the Mobile, Alabama, division of the NAACP told Al.com that “in light of the current situation in our country — such as the arrest of two young black men at a Philadelphia Starbucks coffee shop — we felt it was important for our members to get a first-hand account of the incident, which has now gone viral on social media locally and across the country.”

Waffle House is well-known as a 24-hour hangout that attracts people of all backgrounds, similar to Starbucks’ marketing of itself as a welcoming “third-place.”

According to the Post, it is not clear who initiated the disagreement, who called the police (the local police department didn’t return a request for comment), or how Clemons ended up on the floor. One protester was also arrested yesterday, during the sit-in.