GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — The downtown Grand Rapids Buffalo Wild Wings has fired a manager who was caught on camera choking a man at the restaurant.
Surveillance video of the incident, bearing a date stamp of Sept. 6, surfaced on social media over the weekend. The video, which does not contain audio of the incident, appears to show two employees talking to a man before one of them suddenly grabs him by the neck. After about 15 seconds, the man being choked falls to the ground before the employees involved drag his limp body out of the camera's view.
On Tuesday, Grand Rapids police said the incident was reported to them and has been assigned to a detective. Police said they are still working to identify the victim.
The employee who choked the man was identified by company officials as a manager at the restaurant.
"We're extremely disappointed about this," said Jean Lanfear, the vice president of human resources for JK&T Wings, Inc., the franchisee of the Buffalo Wild Wings restaurant. "We have terminated the manager who doesn't embody the Buffalo Wild Wings culture."