Anaheim police are investigating an incident that took place at Disneyland over the weekend that involved a violent brawl that broke out between several adult members of a family.
The fight was caught on video by a bystander and uploaded to YouTube on Sunday, where it has since been viewed nearly two million times. In the disturbing footage, below, you can see what appears to be the tail-end of a verbal altercation between a man and a woman who are believed to be brother and a sister at the Mickey’s Toontown section of the park on Saturday.
Then, the woman spits in the man’s face and all hell breaks loose.
(You can watch the full video here. Warning: the footage is graphic.)
The man immediately begins pummeling the woman (and anyone else who attempts to intervene) as several other bystanders and family members quickly become involved.
Police eventually arrived at the scene, after Disneyland security—as well as a janitor, who jumped into the fray—were able to break up the fight. (As if Disneyland employees don’t already have enough to put up with.)
However, the family members involved refused to cooperate with authorities and instead were escorted off Disneyland premises.
But now that authorities have seen the video footage, the case is being reopened and police will work with prosecutors to determine if charges should be filed, such as disturbing the peace, domestic violence, and assault. Not to mention if child protective services should get involved, since this all went down in front of the woman’s screaming and crying daughter.
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“Any type of violence is inexcusable and will not be tolerated,” Disneyland Resort spokeswoman Liz Jaeger said in an emailed statement. “Those involved were immediately removed from the premises and turned over to the Anaheim Police Department.”
As the video began to go viral, naturally Twitter had to weigh in, as the hashtag #disneylandfight began trending late Monday into Tuesday morning, and people began making jokes and memes.
https://twitter.com/SauceageR/status/1148481530311823365
https://twitter.com/frankenbert_/status/1148492656504274944
https://twitter.com/NotAVan_/status/1148494446574493696
https://twitter.com/anurags313/status/1148509407119994880
me opening the #disneylandfight tag pic.twitter.com/OyG8C9tt8X
— maia (@MaiB666) July 9, 2019
Others couldn’t get over a local reporter’s literal blow-by-blow coverage of the story:
I hate sharing fights, but this news commentary is literally hilarious “he punched her dead in the nose” lol. She was ghetto in a past life #disneylandfight #Disney pic.twitter.com/MkwIwis1cj
— Platinum Pantheress (@Iffy_Mae) July 9, 2019
The reporting of the #disneylandfight LMFAO!! pic.twitter.com/AnHL1lNtuG
— KEEM 🍿 (@KEEMSTAR) July 9, 2019
It’s worth noting that no one was seriously injured in the altercation, so hopefully, these people get whatever help that they need.
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