ROSEDALE, Md. — An 18-year-old woman has been charged in an attack on a transgender woman over using a McDonald’s restroom in a Baltimore suburb \u2014an incident captured on video by a McDonald’s employee.<\/p>\n
Police announced that Teonna Monae Brown<\/strong> was arrested Friday and charged with first- and second-degree assault.<\/p>\n A video of the April 18 fight posted online shows two young women kicking and punching 22-year-old Chrissy Lee Polis<\/strong> in the head until she appears to have a seizure.<\/p>\n Polis<\/strong> said that before she was attacked she heard a teen say she was a man using the women’s restroom. According to charging documents, a 14-year-old girl who also faces charges as a juvenile in the case told police that she and Brown<\/strong> fought with Polis<\/strong> over using the restroom.<\/p>\n “They kicked me in my face. They really hurt me really bad and I\u2019m just afraid to go outside now because of stuff like this,” Polis<\/strong> said.<\/p>\n One woman who tried to intervene, Vicky L. Thoms<\/strong>, was also assaulted, according to court documents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" ROSEDALE, Md. — An 18-year-old woman has been charged in an attack on a transgender woman over using a McDonald’s restroom in a Baltimore suburb \u2014an incident captured on video by a McDonald’s employee. Police announced that Teonna Monae Brown was arrested Friday and charged with first- and second-degree assault. A video of the April […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6117\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}