The Breakfast Club - DONKEY: Trash Dispute At McDonald’s Leads To Shooting Of Teen Employee’s Mother

Episode Date: July 23, 2025

Charlamagne Tha God gives Donkey of the Day to a woman involved in a trash dispute at McDonald’s that led to the shooting of a teen employee’s mother. Listen for more!YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@BreakfastClubPower1051FMSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This is an iHeart Women's Sports and our founding sponsors, Elf Beauty, Capital One, and Novartis. Just open the free iHeart app and search iHeart Women's Sports to listen now. So what happened at Chappaquiddick? Well, it really depends on who you talk to. There are many versions of what happened in 1969

when a young Ted Kennedy drove a car into a pond. And left a woman behind to drown. Chappaquiddick is a story of a tragic death and how the Kennedy machine took control. Every week we go behind the headlines and beyond the drama of America's royal family. Listen to United States of Kennedy on the iHeart radio app, Apple podcast, or wherever you get your podcasts. The Girlfriends is back with a new season, and this time I'm telling you the story of Kelly Harnett. Kelly spent over a decade in prison for a murder she says she didn't commit.

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But in 2014, the youngest escaped. Listen to The Turning River Road on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. I've been watching you, Charlie. I was ready for you. I never heard of a donkey the other day. What is it? Say it again, Charlemagne. Yes, you are a donkey. Everything that Charlemagne is saying is true. Yes, Donkey! Today for Wednesday, July 23rd, goes the 35-year-old Taneika McKenzie. Now let me tell you something. I respect hardworking people in all industries,

especially fast food service industries, okay? It's no secret my wife and I own Crystal franchises in South Carolina. Salute to our spots in Orangeburg and Walterboro, okay? South Carolina, respectfully. So I see firsthand how hard fast food service workers work. And I also see the BS they have to deal with because they are constantly having to engage

with the most unstable creatures on the planet and those unstable creatures are humans. Can you imagine regardless of what's going on in your life, regardless of what it is you're going through, you have agreed to do a job and you have to do that job every day to the best of your ability at the highest level, regardless of how you may be feeling? I mean, that's all of us, but you can't bring your BS to work, okay? The customers don't deserve that and vice versa. Whatever you got going on in your life, don't take that out on the fast food workers, customers.

Okay, order your number two combo meal large and keep it pushing and be kind in the process because you don't know what other people are going through. By the way, once again, this works both ways. Respect me, I'll respect you because disrespect begets disrespect every time. See, Cathy M. Bledsoe was a manager at McDonald's, and she told one of her teenage employees

to take the trash out, and the teenage employee refused to do so. Now, imagine for a second, you a manager at McDonald's, Jess, or you a manager at McDonald's, Envy, and you ask a teenage worker to take the trash out, and they say no. What you gonna do?

Fire. Yeah, most definitely. That's what most people would do, right? Okay. That's what most people would do. She didn't even do that. Okay, all she simply did was tell her to clock out and go home. That's it. That's what Cathy did. Told her to clock out and go home. What a girl called her mother. the clock out and go home. What a girl called her mother. Okay 35 year old Taneika Mackenzie who then came to McDonald's with another teenage girl to confront Kathy Bledsoe and then all hell broke loose. Let's go to NBC 5 for the report please. Shortly before 5 Wednesday afternoon police went to check out a disturbance at this McDonald's on South Belt East in Belleville. Officers learned a shooting happened inside the fast food restaurant. The person police say pulled the trigger is a manager, 44 year old Kathy Bledsoe.

Investigators say the McDonald's manager asked the teenage employee to take the trash out and when she refused, the girl returned here with her mother. Police say Bledsoe and the Belleville mom, 35 year old Tanika McKenzie, first argued in the McDonald's lobby. The altercation escalated when McKenzie and her daughter went behind the front counter to an office area. Investigators say McKenzie struck Bledsoe in her face and head.

Police say the restaurant manager then pulled out a gun and fired once, striking the mom in her leg. Oh my god. Donkey men breed with donkey women and have donkey kids. This teenage girl is a donkey with no home training because you work at McDonald's and your manager asks you to take the trash out. You didn't take the trash out. So they tell you clock out and go home. You call your mama who's 35 year old, Tanika, okay?

And Tanika, you didn't ask no questions of your daughter? Right is right and wrong is wrong. I don't know what Cathy said to her in the process of telling her to clock out, but it couldn't have been worth you coming to McDonald's, you know, coming back to McDonald's with your daughter to assault Cathy. Who is teaching the children here, okay?

This is terrible conflict resolution skills. You went back to McDonald's with your child and almost got both of y'all killed. Okay, Kathy was charged with aggravated unlawful use of a weapon, and Tanika was charged with aggravated battery and mob action. I don't think Kathy should be charged with a damn thing.

Okay, she did exactly what she was supposed to do. I'm at work, and I sent your child home for not doing her job, and you come up to my place of employment, step behind my counter and try to jump me? I'm up and on everybody if I'm scrapped okay Kathy got hit in the face and head and fired one shot that hit Tanika in the leg all because your child didn't want to take the trash out and guess what now we know where the daughter gets it from okay the Belleville Police Department

put out a statement and I'm not gonna read the whole thing but they basically said it's unfortunate this incident occurred. It seems individuals are quick to resort to violence to resolve disputes without consideration of the impact their actions have on the community. As a whole, this was an unnecessary incident that could have been mitigated without punches being thrown or a gun being used. That statement sounds like us civilians talking to the police. Yes, plenty of interactions with cops don't have to lead to violence either. Well, let me stay focused. Now, Kathy is in custody at the time in this article but Tanika is not. I guess because she's in the hospital. But I don't think that's right. Okay, what did Kathy do wrong here? Your child, Tanika, didn't take the trash out

at McDonald's. Okay, I'm her manager. I sent her home. You come to my place of employment, you and that little girl and try to jump me, come behind the county and put hands on me. I shot you. Is that not standing your ground? Is that not self-defense? Now this happened in Illinois. Illinois does not have a stand your ground law. It says while Illinois does recognize the right to self-defense, it does not allow for the use of force in public spaces without a duty to retreat if a safe escape is available. Illinois law requires a reasonable belief of imminent harm and that retreat was not possible before using force in self-defense. Listen, she got confronted by two people and hit in the face ahead.

The floor in the back of McDonald's might have been wet. I might not have ran. It's either this pistol or the french fry grease. Either way, it's fire. and hitting the face ahead, okay? The floor in the back of McDonald's might've been wet. I might not have ran, all right? It's either this pistol or the french fry grease. Either way, it's fire, okay? Let me tell you something, man. A bad leader can take a good staff and destroy it. Tanika, you are a bad leader, okay?

Kathy is a great leader. She sent your daughter home for not doing her job. Consequences to negative actions. You came to jump her and got shot. Consequences to negative actions. You came to jump her and got shot. Consequences to negative actions. And I bet the McKenzie family still ain't learn a damn thing because of it. Please give Taneika McKenzie the biggest he-huh. What did Cathy do wrong? Nothing at all. Nothing. Like that's basically a family of clowns Like you said who was raising the kids like that's your kid is your friend

No, I mean like that. That's what happened a lot of young mothers like do that. They they they raised their kids based on like How you know like they want to be their friend except there's no discipline in that house You can tell like it's like you said She didn't even ask her no questions. No questions were asked. Why did you why are you being sent home? What happened? Well, if you just go up there you want What you should do you gonna ask the child right the child won't tell you one story And if you do want to go to McDonald's you go up there and you have a simple lie

Yes conversation with the manager Kathy what happened what she do right? I asked her to take the trash out to me She won't take the trash out. Oh, okay. I see how she don't like taking the trash out at home Yeah, she don't do chores she has no responsibility She probably got the job because she won't make her own money I'm other prior you don't have money to give her extra money to give her you don't think the trash out at home Neither Kathy her silly ass. You know, I don't wear my hand Look, thank you for not firing her. I'm gonna fix it instead. You go up there and get shot. That's crazy Shot and Kathy ain't do a damn thing wrong

All right. Well, thank you for that donkey today. Now when we come back, let's open up the phone lines. 800-585-1051. Charlamagne, have you heard about the T-App? What? The T-App. No, man. I don't want to hear about it. It sounds silly.

Damn, he sounds like an angry ass uncle. Charlamagne, I don't know about the grown man app. Have you heard about the T-App? I don't know about the goddamn T-App. Lauren, come to the mic. That's the question that Tram would ask you or something like that. And be grown ass. I get enough tea up here every morning.

I don't need no T-App. Can you hear me? I can hear you. I can hear you. I can hear you. I can hear you. I can hear you. Yeah Can you tell about this tea app that you I was air hustling and I heard her talking about the tea Okay, turn the mic on please hold on one second. Okay the mic's on that on How would they be in the streets Lauren? Mike it's not hooked up. You gotta plug it in.

Jesus Christ. No way, that's God. Who want Lauren to shut the hell up? Shut up. Try it now, see something? Grab the other mic, just pull the other mic. I'm sorry, this show is so low budget. Is there an actor can tell me?

There we go, there we go. I can't even work. It's working, that's working. You got it. I'm sorry, this is how you know it's live. Now tell me. I'm sorry. This is how you know it's live. This is coming off. Now tell me. Nothing to stop Lauren from talking. Now she wants me to read it for her. She's still like, no. Oh, I didn't even hear you.

We know. Tell us about the T app. All right. So the T app, right, is this app that you download. You got to wait to be accepted and you can drop your man in the app, or you can drop somebody that you're looking to date, you can ask for dating advice, and when you drop your person in your location,

women in the area can tell you whether it's a good look, whether it's catfish, whether he cheating, whether he lying, what he got going on. Why the hell did you ask me about this app? Well, that is the question. We're asking 800-585-1051. Ladies, are you on this T-Appapp or would you rather stay in the dark and not check the T-app at all?

That is the question. 800-585-1051. You need to let Justin Lauren have these conversations sometimes. I see why Logan be slamming you. Logan, keep putting daddy on his back, man. He need it. Logan doesn't slam me. Logan.

Logan. Ladies, when we come back Let's talk about this T app. Ladies are you on this T app or are you just like you know what I find out how I find out. Let's ask. Question is are you on this T app? Let's ask. We'll talk when we come back. We'll say Lauren's on this T app. I am. You can ask me a question you're not going to answer. 800-585-1051 is The Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club.

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So what happened at Chappaquiddick? Well, it really depends on who you talk to. There are many versions of what happened in 1969 when a young Ted Kennedy drove a car into a pond. And left a woman behind to drown. Chappaquiddick is a story of a tragic death and how the Kennedy machine took control. Every week we go behind the headlines

and beyond the drama of America's royal family. Listen to United States of Kennedy's on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. The Girlfriends is back with a new season, and this time I'm telling you the story of Kelly Harnett. Kelly spent over a decade in prison for a murder she says she didn't commit. As she fought for her freedom, she taught herself the law.

He goes, oh God, Harnett, jailhouse lawyer. And became a beacon of hope for the women locked up alongside her. You're supposed to have faith in God, but I had nothing but faith in her. I think I was put here to save souls by getting people out of prison. The Girlfriends, Jailhouse Lawyer. Listen on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. I'm Ian Faff, the creator and host of the Uncle Chris podcast. My Uncle Chris was a real character, a garbage truck driver from South Carolina who is now

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