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   From: Davecross@kremlin.ru   
      
   A McDonald’s worker in California’s Central Valley is accused of   
   rubbing a cop’s food on the floor and spitting on it in an   
   incident captured on surveillance camera, according to   
   authorities.   
      
   Tatyana Hargrove, a 21-year-old employee at the Bakersfield fast   
   food restaurant, was arrested on felony charges last month after   
   managers reviewed surveillance video and learned a worker had   
   “intentionally tampered with food that was served to a   
   Bakersfield Police Department Officer on November 12,” the Kern   
   County Sheriff’s Office said in a news release Nov. 18.   
      
   The Kern County District Attorney’s Office charged Hargrove on   
   Tuesday with a felony count of attempting to mingle substances   
   with food or drink and a misdemeanor count of battery, and she’s   
   set to appear in court on Dec. 18, KGET reports.   
      
   Prosecutors “claimed Hargrove was seen on videotape rubbing a   
   hamburger on the floor and spitting on it before serving it to   
   the officer,” 23ABC reports.   
      
   The alleged food tampering at the restaurant on Rosedale Highway   
   came just weeks after Hargrove lost a lawsuit in October   
   alleging excessive use of force during an earlier encounter with   
   police, according to The Bakersfield Californian.   
      
   The Californian reported that Hargrove “was at the center of a   
   high-profile dispute with the BPD in 2017, after two police   
   officers mistook her for a male suspect and she was bitten by a   
   police dog. Hargrove said at the time she had been thrown to the   
   ground and punched in the face by the officers. The officers’   
   accounts differed from Hargrove, providing a less   
   confrontational version of the encounter. The BPD eventually   
   called the encounter a case of mistaken identity while the   
   Bakersfield chapter of the NAACP said it was racially motivated.”   
      
   Bakersfield Police Department Chief Lyle Martin apologized to   
   Hargrove following the mistaken arrest and Hargrove said she   
   accepted the apology, KBAK reported.   
      
   Hargrove sued the city in federal court alleging a civil rights   
   violation, but a jury found police “blameless and ruled in favor   
   of the City of Bakersfield” on Oct. 18, according to KGET.   
      
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