Fight over social distancing at Colorado Springs Walmart caught on camera
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) -- A brawl broke out inside a Walmart in Colorado Springs this past weekend, and one of the women can be heard in a now-viral video yelling at the other for not being six feet apart.
It shows two women getting physical and throwing punches. Carroll says she was walking through the store and had only been there a few minutes when she heard the screams and decided to press record.
"It originally started with social distancing. The lady in front told the lady behind her to step back and she wasn't six feet and pushed her cart back and then the lady pushed the other cart back. The first lady started throwing the other lady's stuff off the conveyor belt," Carroll said.
Colorado Springs police say 60-year-old Laura Barr was arrested for 3rd-degree assault for punching another woman over the use of the conveyor belt. Although they don't believe social distancing was the main problem, cellphone footage shows a woman tell the other she wasn't "six feet away," before the other walked away.
"I don't know if the lady in the blue had a physical reason not to be wearing a mask, but she wasn't even wearing a mask in regards to her complaining about the other lady not being six feet," she said.
KRDO has not been able to hear their side of the story.
"In my opinion, the one in the purple shirt should have been further back, but the one in the blue shirt started it all in my opinion," Carroll said.
Carroll says the chaos lasted a few minutes before getting broken up.
