Viral video shows customers fighting with bat-wielding cookie shop owners over mask rules

The two were arrested for refusing to wear masks in the store and charged with assaulting the owner of the biscuit shop.

According to KOIN News, a viral video of the incident on Wednesday showed that they entered the Crumb Together store in Eugene, Oregon. The shopkeeper told them that they could not enter the shop without wearing a mask.

“Do you not provide services to the public?” asked an invisible man with a camera that was recording the interaction.

“Yes, but the state requires you to wear a mask to enter any place,” the shopkeeper replied.

The man continued to argue that under federal law, the owner cannot refuse to serve him, and the owner insists that she can.

The host asked the two to leave and approach another person, a woman, and she told the host not to touch her.

“The worst thing you can do is put your hands on me now,” the woman said.

The shopkeeper did not touch her, but the woman pushed the shopkeeper, and then the shopkeeper went behind the counter to get the baseball bat.

“Go out now. Once I ask you to leave, don’t leave. I have the right to use reasonable force. Go out now,” the owner said. When she approached, the woman grabbed the bat, and when the quarrel began, the people in the store were no longer clearly visible in the picture.

After a few seconds, you can see the woman fighting with the shopkeeper. The man with the camera walked out of the store and said, “Someone called the police, this lady.” Two women can still be seen fighting, and the owner’s screams can be heard.

In the end, the woman left the store and the man said: “You can’t fucking attack others and run a business.”

Videos of the quarrel have been widely shared on social media.Video version posted to Twitter As of Saturday, Ron Filipkowski has been viewed more than 550,000 times.

The couple was later identified as Ricki Scott Collin and Amy Verlee Hall in Portland, According to KOIN.

News station KABC reported that Colin and Hall showed their footage to the police and said they were attacked. Subsequently, they were arrested for beatings.

KOIN reported that after the argument, the owner was taken to the hospital without life-threatening.

After the incident, the biscuit shop received the support of the people across the country.

“Thank you all for your support, sympathy, love and understanding. We had a great day,” Crumb Together wrote on Twitter on Thursday.

“However, our order quantity exceeded our fulfilment capacity, so we had to close our online store. Please contact us again next week,” the store added.

Weekly newspaper Eugene’s police were contacted for more details about the incident, but no response was received before the release on Saturday afternoon.