Male security guard in Taco Bell caught on video slapping female in face: 'I said leave!'

A male security guard inside a Taco Bell was caught on cellphone video slapping a female in the face, TMZ reported.

The outlet said the incident took place inside a downtown Los Angeles branch of the fast-food franchise. TMZ doesn't mention when the incident took place, but the New York Post reported that it happened Sunday. Indeed, a TV monitor seen on the cellphone video shows the Super Bowl between the Kansas City Chiefs and the eventual winners, the Philadelphia Eagles.

'He slapped the s**t out of her. It was crazy. Everybody was shocked.'

The clip begins with the female appearing to move away from the security guard before quickly getting to a self-service kiosk, presumably to order food, but the guard grabs her by the arm, spins her around, and slaps her in the face.

The stunned female walks away from the guard, who continues to pursue her before ordering her to leave the premises.

The female tells the guard to "get away from me!" The guard tells her, "I said leave!" After the female walks away from the guard again, loudly complaining, the guard is finally able to escort her from the restaurant.

Apart from an audible "oooh" after the slap, no one in the sparsely populated restaurant takes issue with the guard or the female, according to the video — which you can view here.

“The security guard was telling her to leave, and she didn’t want to because she was ordering food,” Alejandro Sanchez, who recorded the viral video, told SWNS, according to the Post. “Then he just went off, and she started going crazy.”

Sanchez added, “He slapped the s**t out of her. It was crazy. Everybody was shocked,” the Post noted, citing SWNS.

“There’s a Skid Row a couple of blocks away from there, and they just have a lot of traffic,” according to Sanchez, who is a regular customer at the location, the Post said, citing SWNS. Sanchez also wondered if the incident took place because the female looked “homeless.”

The Post and TMZ said Taco Bell did not respond to requests for comment.

The Los Angeles Police Department on Thursday told Blaze News it could not locate in its records a "response to the location given." TMZ also noted in its report that the location of the incident was a Taco Bell Cantina, and Google Maps shows only one Taco Bell Cantina near the city's Skid Row section.

Editor's note: This story has been updated with a statement from the LAPD.

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