Woman Charged For Brutal Beating Caught On Tape
JUNE 26, 2014
McDonald's worker being sought for bloody attack Tuesday evening


JUNE 26--Police today charged a female McDonald’s employee for the vicious beating of a New Jersey woman whose two-year-old small son tried to stop the attack, a video of which went viral this week.
Latia Harris, 25, has been named in a criminal complaint accusing her of aggravated assault and two counts of making terroristic threats, according to a court filing. The brutal attack occurred Tuesday evening in an open field behind a McDonald’s in Salem, a southwestern New Jersey city.
Harris, pictured in the above driver’s license photo, was wearing her McDonald’s uniform as she punched, kicked, and spat on the 27-year-old victim, who was “covered in blood” when emergency service workers arrived at the scene (she was subsequently transported to a local hospital for treatment).
A video of the attack (seen below) was posted to Facebook, where it was copied by Salem police. Investigators reported that the victim told them that “Tia who works at McDonalds” assaulted her and accused her of spreading rumors about her and her McDonald’s manager.
As seen on the video, during the assault Harris threatened to kick the victim’s son in the face. As his mother was being beaten, the boy kicked Harris several times in the leg. At the conclusion of the assault, Harris “spat on the victim and walked away asking those recording the incident not to post it on social media,” according to a police statement.
The complaint alleges that Harris also threatened to shoot the victim “while punching her about the face.”
Harris, who remains at large, has not reported to work since the June 24 incident. When she is apprehended, Harris will be booked into jail on the three felony counts, the bail for which has already been set at $35,000. (3 page)
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James Berry · Top Commenter · Howard College
What a worthless piece of shit this idiot woman is. I hope she gets locked away for years.
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Donald Berry · Top Commenter
If lucky 20 days.
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Jhon Garcia · Top Commenter · Hollywood, Florida
Donald Berry - you are absolutely right, at most she will get 30 days.. sad, sad...
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Marcy Smith · Bok Edward AVTS
Donald Berry, trust me when they catch her. & they will she is going to get a lot of time.
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Kimberly Severtson · Top Commenter · Ramona, California
All the worthless pieces of shit that stood around, filmed this and just continued to let it happen should ALSO be charged with a crime!
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Jim Davis
They were 'luvin' it".
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Jhon Garcia · Top Commenter · Hollywood, Florida
as much as I dislike the reason why the comment was made, I got to handed to you, I was quite humorous ..
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Nancy Christoforo Cuseo · Top Commenter
mostly all black watching and wonder if this one is a muslim or illegal this is happening all over the country when the president sets the example you can get away with anything no one does anything it goes viral.
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Antonio Caribello · Top Commenter · UC Davis
I wonder if Al Sharpton will march now? If he marched for black on white crime as well, He would be anorexic.. I dream of the day when Caucasians wake up and stick up for one another. How about the help this woman received from the bystanders...oops...They didn't help her or her son. She was too white to be assisted.
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Ben Enjerry · Top Commenter
Have you seen Al lately? He's wasting away to nothing.
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Jhon Garcia · Top Commenter · Hollywood, Florida
If you looked around - The victim and her son, where the only white people around ... unfortunately, these days society prefers to see a beating on youtube than prevent said beating - it makes the videographer cool and popular...
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Johnathan Surowietz · Follow · Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College
Jhon Garcia Its called the Bystander effect.
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Willy Keens
Where is Obama , Al , and Jesse. If it was reversed they would have their faces all over the cameras.
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Larry Darlin · Top Commenter · Sulphur Springs High School
you are so right
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Trace Veteto · Follow · Top Commenter
That coulda been oblama's daughter.
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Marcy Smith · Bok Edward AVTS
she's Hispanic, but it still was wrong.
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Marcy Smith · Bok Edward AVTS
I'm black & I didn't like this one bit, this hurt me to my core. If this had been a black on black assault those worthless idiots still would have stood around recording & jeering. When people love witnessing evil acts they don't care who it is as long as it's not them. & what does Obama & his daughters have to do with it. & If you want Al Sharpton to help contact him & quit the racist sarcasm. this isn't about race it's about evil.
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Dorothy Louise Rector · Top Commenter · Pahokee High School
Sorry, but it is about "race" too. OBAMA, Sharpton, Jackson all come out of the woodwork when it is one of their own, but let a white person get beat savagely, and they disappear into thin air. So yes, it IS about race. You say, "What does Obama have to do with it?" THIS TIME absolutely NOTHING, because it is a white woman who got the savage beating. Oh, if only more people carried concealed weapons. I know for a fact, had I been there, WHITE or BLACK, the one that was plummeting the other one, and threatening to kick a small child in the face, would be the one that I would put a bullet into. Now, if you think I am "racist", that's okay. God knows it isn't true, so I could care less what anyone else thinks. This is DEPLORABLE!!!
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Carol Haverly · Follow · Top Commenter · Massachusetts College of Art and Design
Agree. And all the people calling out Rev. Sharpton. on, he called out a black person regarding a criminal act this past week. Get a clu
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Marcy Smith · Bok Edward AVTS
I agree it is deplorable & anyone that doesn't feel that way something is wrong with them.
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Lori Gwynne · Mayfield High School (Kentucky)
what a filthy piece of gutter trash
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Luis Perez · Follow · Shipping and Receiving at Cisco Systems
good this shit got me angry earlier... Sometimes i just dont know anymore people are fucked up....
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Donald Berry · Top Commenter
"people" LOL
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Luis Perez · Follow · Shipping and Receiving at Cisco Systems
Donald Berry whats so funny ? let me guess you wanted me to say black people only... since that all you post on your wall huh ... smh
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Adam Skraucevs · West Allis, Wisconsin
Black on white its never about race but white on black lets start marching rioting get public speakers out wtf thats bullshit
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Julius C Manning · Top Commenter · Troy State University Dothan
Adam buddy you are 100% correct.
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Ilya Simkhovich · Top Commenter · Works at Universal Life Church Monastery
actually, i think this is a little like "McHammed". i doubt race was an issue; more like hardcore attitude and the issue was "slander" offending someone insecure enough to wear a cloak.
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Dani Taylor · Top Commenter · The Truman Show
Ilya Simkhovich "Hardcore attitude" = HUGE enough to brutalize and intimidate anyone she/it pleases. Whether anything the McD's folks discussed was the truth or not, this thing is like a brutal tyrant who decides what everyone around her can or cannot say or do. She's a Boss, Mon. She's loves that she's extremely violent and completely able to make people respect her McThoritay.
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David Donaldson · Top Commenter · Works at Software Developer
This is what the future looks like.
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Adam Hendricks · Top Commenter · California State University, East Bay
This is what the current times look like. Our apocalyptic future is already here.
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Wayne Douglas · Top Commenter
Rev. Al, how comes we haben't hurd frum u yet? Didn't u see da little 2 year-old white kid kickin at de nice black lady? No justice, no peace, until dis obviously racist little kid is brought to trial for hate crimes.
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Trace Veteto · Follow · Top Commenter
Rev,? My Ass...... lol
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Kim Henshaw Dozier-Fry · Follow · Works at Local 841 IUOE
What a bunch of worthless scumbags to just watch and not do anything!
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Johnny Strife · Follow · Top Commenter · Johnson County Community College
If that had been a white person beating a black person, this would be the number one story in the nation...
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Noneya Biness · Top Commenter
and all the blacks standing around watching would have jumped in and beat the white person into a coma too-- just like that poor driver who accidentally hit the black kid with his car.
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Larry Darlin · Top Commenter · Sulphur Springs High School
thats why we need concealed or and open carry of firearms for protection
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Neena Boswell · Top Commenter · Co-Owner and Co-Founder at Self-Employed
Guess she didn't know how to fight back
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Greg Gagnon · Delcastle Technical High School
It Travon could be Obamas son Latia could be his daughter
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Jem Ulrich · Top Commenter
Look at all of those brave "men" standing around. Nah - I'll stop here.
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Julius C Manning · Top Commenter · Troy State University Dothan
Jem, there not men they are ignorant, uneducated savage animals
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Dani Taylor · Top Commenter · The Truman Show
They looked like children to me. She is a freaking BEASTY. Did you see how HUGE she was compared to the tiny, human being she savagely assaulted?
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Noneya Biness · Top Commenter
Dani Taylor I thought it was a guy when I saw the video. Still can't believe that is a "woman".
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Bill Smith · Los Angeles, California
Total scum-bag. Where is this woman from and why is she in my country?
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Edward Styles · Works at U.S. Federal Government
Ghetto trash
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Marcy Smith · Bok Edward AVTS
Well, I'm gonna agree to disagree, but what I will agree with is......what she did, was on a level so wrong it can't be measured & I pray she is captured & prosecuted to the fullest extent that the law will allow, for what she did to this poor women & this innocent child, I'm sure whatever she did, didn't warrant her getting beat in such a manner. I shall say no more on the subject. God bless you all.
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Richard Buser · Top Commenter · Greenway High School
again your right marcy. things like this get people very emotional, including me. nobody. regardless of color deserves this. i hope the people who stood by and watched are hunted by their inaction.
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Sandy Buchanan · Top Commenter · Asbury Park High School
You are wise Marcy - a Godly woman. I feel the same way as you. There is such an awful division in our nation and the majority of people deeply care. As you know, we are in End Times and things are just going to get worse. We have to pray for all people - love them and hate the sin. Satan is having his way and if you aren't a Believer, things will be very hard to take. I'm just staying in obedience in Him. Put on the Full Armor of God and what I do each morning is say, "today is a day that The LORD has made, so I will rejoice and be glad in it". Bless you.
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Muriel Macdonald
I dont think its about what color their skin is at all.its about some horrible brut beating on a poor girl half her size, and in front of her child.that alone should tell you what kind of a person she is . horrible excuse of a human being

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J T Grant Jnr · Follow
Shes going to jail.See how tough she is then..x
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Dani Taylor · Top Commenter · The Truman Show
J T Grant Jnr She'll excel in violence in jail because she's ten times bigger than the average woman.
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J T Grant Jnr · Follow
Dani Taylor you could be right there

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Stephen E Gales Sr. · Follow · Overmight Stocker at Walmart Dry Ridge
What a world .I am a lover not a fighter but I would had step up not watch this happen to any person .
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Robert Rogers · Top Commenter
Why was the audio censored?
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Wayne Douglas · Top Commenter
The audio is included at the NY Daily News site.
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