An ordinary day on Sept. 16 at Publix grocery store in Temple Terrace, Fla. soon turned chaotic when a customer ordered a chicken wings dinner and left the location in shambles.
During an interview with NBC's Florida affiliate WFLA, witness Jesse Jordan said the incident began when customer Raleigh Harris, 59, was acting "rude" and started using racial slurs toward a deli worker.
Taking offense with his behavior, another worker at the store and customer Leon Lightbody confronted Harris, but that only caused the situation to escalate.
"He got really outraged and told him to mind his f--king business and kinda threw the N-word in there a few times," Jordan said, according to AJC. "The guy that was ordering chicken was, like, running around the deli being chased by these other customers."
A customer captured the ensuing chaos on camera, showing Harris in the middle of a brawl with several other customers, as employees tried to break up and defuse the situation. During the melee, food tables around the store were pushed away and knocked to the floor, according to the New York Daily News.
Lightbody, 25, was arrested for simple battery, police said. It's not known if Harris was arrested in the fight's aftermath.
No one was injured in the fight and Publix spokesman Brian West said in a statement on the in-store violence "is not the norm."
