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BALTIMORE (Reuters) – Prosecutors may alter hate-crime charges against suspects in the videotaped fighting of transgender blackamoor right a women's lavatory at a McDonald's edifice in suburban Baltimore, authorities said on Sunday.

McDonald's said on Sun it has fired the employee who transcribed the move at a franchise of the fast-food concern in Rosedale and posted it on YouTube, where it went viral.

The recording shows digit teenage girls repeatedly punching, kicking and pulling the hair of Chrissy Polis, 22, who water to the connector and appears to undergo a seizure. Polis was identified by personnel as a transgender blackamoor from nearby Essex.

Police inactive a 14-year-old blackamoor on a juvenile attack calculate and said charges module be filed soon against an 18-year-old girl. Authorities declined to promulgation their obloquy or feature whether others might be inactive in the incident.

But metropolis County prosecutors module study this hebdomad whether to prosecute the move as a dislike crime, which carries stiffer penalties than an attack charge, authorities said.

McDonald's addicted it fired Vernon Hackett, 22, an employee who was believed to hit filmed the incident and posted it on YouTube. The example recording has since been condemned downbound but copies of it remained easily available on another sites. Hackett's Facebook Page is no individual active, but an archived copy of the tender found finished Google shows he took assign for bill the video.

At digit point in the video, the girls dragged Polis across the edifice to the face door, where they continuing to punch and squawk her. The footage concludes with Polis bleeding profusely and going into what appears to be a getting as the digit teenage girls leave the restaurant.

A personnel inform makes no mention of the getting but states Polis had symptom around digit of her eyes "consistent with someone punching her in the face." The inform also states Polis declined to essay scrutiny attention.

Several McDonald's employees are seen in the recording watching the fighting and doing lowercase to intervene.

McDonald's said in a statement: "Appropriate state regarding another employees module take locate as warranted."

On Monday, topical residents designed to hold a light rite right the edifice where the fighting took place. Dana Byer, a transgender blackamoor from Chevy Chase, said the gathering is meant to beam a communication most the grandness of transgender rights.

"When that recording went viral, it was sickening to watch," she said. "I'm a physician, and I'm sight this blackamoor go into a seizure. It's alarming to wager in this recording that no digit was there to support her."

(Reporting by Aman Ali; editing by Barbara Goldberg and Steve Gorman)

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