A hotdog vendor is speaking out after a viral TikTok showed him being harassed by a bunch of 4 women.
Within the clip, one woman is heard complaining in regards to the $7 price of a meat stick and threatening to “f–k over” the seller, before her cohort is seen taking a hotdog off the grill, licking it and placing it back.
The footage, taken outside Viejas Arena at San Diego State University last Saturday, had been watched hundreds of thousands of times, and generated 1000’s of comments critical of the behavior of the ladies — who’re white, and sympathetic to Hispanic vendor Andrés Argüelles Álvarez.
“They grabbed my bacon with their hand, all my vegetables, the whole lot I take advantage of,” Argüelles Álvarez told Noticias Telemundo in Spanish, based on NBC News. “People realized all of the dirty things they were doing and it disgusted them. They now not desired to buy more.”
“They realized that I used to be Mexican, that I didn’t speak English thoroughly, they usually thought, ‘Ah, we will attack him,’” he reportedly said.
Witness Morgan McBrearty told NBC the ladies “were already there harassing Andrés” when she approached the cart to purchase food.
She said she stepped in to defend him “after I repeatedly heard and saw them talking to him in rude and condescending tones.” The “girls were still continuing to harass” the seller after she accomplished her purchase, McBrearty reportedly said.
Meanwhile, the California State University San Marcos student who filmed the clip explained on social media why she selected to record the obnoxious behavior than put an end to it.
“I much relatively show how these girls exit in public and act than get myself involved,” said the TikTok user, who goes by @rileykaufman9.
The poster said that Álvarez sells hotdogs in the identical spot every weekend and “did nothing to impress this. It was just the women coming into it indignant and drunk and prepared to begin something.”
A spokesperson from the faculty said a current and former student were among the many rude women, whose behavior it labeled “disrespectful and antithetical,” based on NBC.
“If applicable, we plan to pursue any violations of our student code of conduct,” the university reportedly said.
A street vendor activist had reportedly taken to Instagram to say the ladies were students at San Diego State University, prompting the varsity to issue an announcement on the matter Tuesday.
“Not one of the individuals within the video are confirmed to be SDSU students. Further, while individual names have been shared online, no less than one SDSU student and a student organization tagged by social media accounts reported being misidentified and never present within the video, and not one of the remaining names shared are SDSU.”
NBC News reported that its own attempts to discover the offending women were unsuccessful.
The incident got here amid an increase in robberies against mostly Hispanic street vendors in nearby Los Angeles had soared over the past yr, based on NBC Los Angeles.
“Like me, I do know that there are millions of individuals who live this every single day,” Álvarez reportedly said.
