A manager of a Tennessee McDonald’s was unexpectedly attacked by a customer who climbed through the drive-thru window after complaining that her order was wrong.
Kaitlin Brantley, 24, was arrested after she physically assaulted 37-year-old Tiffany Sherrod during a brutal rampage at the fast food restaurant last month, marking her second arrest for attacking a worker within the service industry.
‘She told me she was going to beat my a**,’ Sherrod told WREG News.
On February 7, Brantley became enraged while in the passenger seat of a McDonald’s drive-thru, insisting that her order was wrong.
Despite Sherrod explaining that, as the manager, she could easily fix the order, Brantley climbed through the window and began attacking the 37-year-old mother, leaving her fearing for her life.
‘Whatever she was on, she wouldn’t let me go,’ Sherrod told the outlet. ‘I had to protect myself.’
Video footage of the altercation showed Sherrod grabbing a coffee pot and repeatedly striking Brantley in the head, while Brantley tried to grab at Sherrod’s hair and face during the chaotic struggle.
Once she let go of Sherrod, Brantley began trashing the restaurant, sending computer monitors, food items and displays crashing to the floor before trying to climb back through the window to the car.
Kaitlin Brantley, 24, of Tennessee, was arrested after she climbed through a McDonald’s drive-thru window and physically assaulted the manager of the establishment, insisting that her order was wrong
On February 7, Brantley became enraged while in the passenger seat of a McDonald’s drive-thru and climbed through the window to attack a 37-year-old mother, all because she claimed her order was wrong
Despite explaining that, as the manager, she could easily fix the order, Tiffany Sherrod, 37, began to fear for her life as Brantley ‘didn’t want to hear it,’ claiming that she was going to ‘beat her a**’
Footage of the aftermath showed the floor and countertops in disarray, with sauces, bins, carts and food scattered everywhere.
Brantley, recently out of jail on bond for a previous assault of a teenager, was booked into the Shelby County Jail following February’s attack and charged with assault and vandalism.
Sherrod addressed the court on Thursday, resulting in Brantley’s bond being revoked after the state argued that she had shown ‘a clear and ongoing pattern of dangerous conduct, making her a threat to public safety,’ according to the Shelby County District Attorney’s Office.
‘I let them know that no matter how I tried to fix her order, and, you know, accommodate, she was not going for it,’ Sherrod told WREG. ‘She didn’t want to hear it.’
Less than two years ago, Brantley was arrested for the brutal assault of a 17-year-old employee at a Cheddar’s restaurant in Cordova.
Omarion Ford was hosting at Cheddar’s on North Germantown Parkway on a busy Sunday in July of 2023 when he was asked to seat a party of eight people, WREG News reported.
When informed that they’d have to wait an hour for a large table, the party instead agreed to split up and sit at two separate tables.
The group ultimately went back outside after a woman, believed to be Brantley, expressed distaste with the arrangement of the tables.
Video footage of the altercation showed Sherrod grabbing a coffee pot and repeatedly striking Brantley in the head, while Brantley tried to grab at Sherrod’s hair and face during the chaotic struggle
Once she let go of Sherrod, Brantley began trashing the restaurant, sending computer monitors, food items and displays crashing to the floor before trying to climb back through the window to the car
Sherrod addressed the court on Thursday, resulting in Brantley’s bond being revoked after the state argued that she had shown ‘a clear and ongoing pattern of dangerous conduct, making her a threat to public safety’
However, when the high school student seated the party at one large table, an argument quickly broke out.
‘The girl in the green said why did it take so long to seat me? You could have sat us down,’ Ford recalled to the outlet. ‘I said, what’s the problem? Why are you so angry? I got you all the table. Why are you still so mad?’
As Ford headed back to the host stand amid the woman’s complaints, her boyfriend followed him and began punching him.
‘He got in my face and said “What did you say to my girl?” Ford said. ‘After he punched me in my face, that’s when I fell back into the fence, and when I hit back, the whole family started jumping me. That’s when I blacked out.’
Despite his co-workers efforts to keep him awake on the floor, the next thing Ford remembered was waking up in an ambulance on the way to the hospital.
‘It’s very sad, and it’s very low down,’ Ford said. ‘I didn’t do anything to nobody. All I do is go to work and go home.’
Ford slammed his head against a brick wall during the attack, investigators said, resulting in a concussion, bruises, abrasions to the face, a black eye and a bruised lung when he arrived for treatment.
Brantley, along with her other family members, Darius Brantley, Brittany Brantley and Carol Brantley, were all arrested, each charged with aggravated assault.
Along with his family, Ford was present in court for the group’s arraignments, visibly shaken by the abrupt incident.
‘He was shaking, and he wanted to cry, and I was just letting him know I was here for him and the family’s here for him,’ Latisha Ford, his mother, told the WREG.
‘I was telling him the world was standing behind him.’
Despite working to pay for his senior pictures and other school-related expenses, the attack left Ford fearful to return back to the restaurant.
‘I don’t want to go back,’ he said. ‘You never know if I go, one of their family members might come in and kill me. You never know.’
‘I think about it a lot. It was very, very scary.’
February’s arrest marks the second time Brantley has been put behind bars for assaulting an employee of the service industry
In 2023, Brantley was arrested for the brutal assault of a 17-year-old employee, Omarion Ford, at a Cheddar’s restaurant in Cordova, where she and her other family members beat the high school student until he was unconscious because they didn’t like the table set-up
Ford slammed his head against a brick wall during the attack, investigators said, resulting in a concussion, bruises, abrasions to the face, a black eye and a bruised lung when he arrived for treatment
Latisha requested that Sherrod appear in court on Thursday following February’s incident and later praised her on social media for supporting her son throughout the process.
‘I love how the news not letting up just like I’m not!!’ Latisha shared in a post to Facebook, accompanied by Brantley’s recent mugshot. ‘Tiffany Sherrod, we thank you so much for being there to help my son get justice.’
Similar to the state’s stance, both Latisha and Sherrod believe that Brantley poses a significant danger to the community, especially given her pattern of violent behavior towards service industry employees.
‘I don’t think she needs to be free,’ Sherrod told WREG.
Brantley, who is charged with three others in the 2023 Cheddar’s case, is expected to appear back in court on April 24.
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