After a server at a Pilsen restaurant was attacked, a community wants justice

The footage of two women brutally attacking a server at Taco Azteca, a longtime Mexican restaurant in Pilsen, last weekend has left a neighborhood reeling, according to residents and local leaders. The now viral video has raised concerns of safety in the neighborhood and left other workers in the area fearful.

As police continue the search for the two aggressors, the images of the beating over a $50 check still haunt some of the other workers at the restaurant, said co-owner Martha Garcia.

In the 10 years they’ve have been in business, they had never experienced an attack on their workers from customers. Let alone a physical one, Garcia added. It has left the 23-year-old server who was attacked traumatized and unable to work with a broken finger…

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