A major camera fight over the weekend between a customer and Bath & Body Works employees at Fashion Square Mall in Arizona went viral.
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Filming of the incident, done on Saturday, begins with a woman fighting with an employee, before another employee joins him, knocking the customer to the floor.
The woman screams ‘release me’ while another customer and two other employees rush to intervene. The group can be seen fighting on the floor, shouting at each other and pulling their hair out, before the clerk grabs one of the women and pushes her toward the door, telling them to ‘get out now!’
The man then pushes hard on the woman involved in the initial fight towards the door, repeating, “Get out now!”
The woman tells the male employee to stop touching her and says she won’t leave until she picks up the bag before being driven out of the store.
On Sunday night, the video, posted on Twitter, had more than 173,000 likes and 30,000 retweets.
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The person who made the video, Genevieve Winslow, said the incident occurred after the woman in the video started arguing with another client after getting too close.
Winslow said Bath & Body Works employees tried to ease the situation, but the client did not want to leave. She also noted that the woman was “noisy and did not cooperate all the time before the fight started”.
According to TMZ, another video of the incident taken from a different angle shows that the client involved was arguing with an African American woman before the fight happened and that politically charged language was used.
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A spokesman for L Brands, the parent company of Bath & Body Works, told FOX News that he is “deeply concerned about the incident at one of our stores” and that they are “currently investigating the matter in partnership with local authorities”.
Scottsdale Police Department spokesman Sergeant Kevin Quon told FOX News that the incident was started because someone cut the line and “it was not a mask or a racial issue”. He added that two women involved in the fight were criminally cited for the incident.