The incident went down in Saint George’s County on March 2, after Jayla Cunningham, 18, posted a now-viral video of her dragging a 15-year-old consumer by her hood and throwing her on the bottom. In keeping with Cunningham, the teenager was attempting to go away with out paying.

Within the clip, Cunningham purportedly tells her consumer, “Sit proper right here till any individual sends it.” This seems to be in reference to somebody sending fee for the companies, which Cunningham stated got here to $150 and included $150 hair extensions.

“I am not f–king taking part in, you simply tried to f–king run,” Cunningham added, per the outlet. “You fortunate I ain’t beat the s–t out of you.” The clip additionally exhibits her reducing out the weave she had purportedly simply put in.

Cunningham offered further context for the viral video, which Fox affiliate WTTG studies has greater than 54 million views, telling the outlet that the teenager had left the constructing fully earlier than she was pulled again inside.

“She ran. Overlook trash, she ran with out paying me,” Cunningham informed the outlet. “I dragged her by her hood again into the salon till I may receives a commission or, you understand, till the police come or till, you understand, she let me take out the service, as a result of it is like she actually ran exterior, like she was about to be gone.”

“I really feel like if I did not try this, she would have been gone and I might have simply by no means been paid,” she added.

The teenager’s mom, although, insists it is all only a huge misunderstanding, and that Cunningham took issues too far. She filed a police report which claims her daughter by chance despatched the fee to the unsuitable CashApp account and was attempting to determine the way to repair it when all of it went down.

“It is simply completely absurd. It is viral. It is everywhere in the nation,” the mom stated of the clip. She additionally stated that her daughter is “not good in any respect” after the stunning incident.

In keeping with the mom, Cunningham did not simply seize her daughter’s hood, but in addition obtained her hair when dragging her via the salon. She says her daughter is traumatized after the expertise.

Along with the assault cost, Cunningham can be going through a civil lawsuit introduced by the teenager’s household.

“The video is horrendous. It is a 15-year-old lady. We’re speaking about somebody’s little one right here — a baby who’s being dragged throughout a salon flooring by her jacket for over one thing so simple as a mistake,” legal professional De’Aja Thompson of Marlboro legislation agency Jackson and Associates informed WTTG.

Cunningham stated she was unaware of the assault cost when contacted by the information outlet, however that she is ready to deliver a witness to again up her claims towards the teenager. She additionally stated that since her video went viral, she’s been going through dying threats and is afraid for her security.

She has a summons to seem in courtroom on April 18 on the assault cost.