By Police1 Staff
OKLAHOMA CITY — An officer who suffered severe burns on his throat from eating a Taco Bell quesadilla is suing the restaurant claiming the employees deliberately ruined his food to cause him harm.
In February, Officer Shawn Byrne stopped to eat in uniform after volunteering at an event when he realized his food didn’t taste right and employees were laughing at him, KFOR reported.
“By the time he took the third bite, apparently, was whenever his mouth started burning really, really bad,” attorney Brian Dell said.
Following a doctor’s diagnosis of severe burns on his throat, Byrne filed a police report and sent the leftovers to a lab to be tested.
Dell told KFOR the results found an “extremely hot pepper sauce” and cologne in the food. Dell said Byrne doesn’t wear cologne.
Dell said the employees are convicted felons. Byrne is seeking more than $75,000 in damages.
“There’s the possibility they wanted to deliberately cause some harm or play a trick, if you will, on a policeman,” Dell said. “If indeed these convicted felons did it deliberately, then you have to assume that’s exactly why they did it. They’d get away with it because it wouldn’t cause the injury it did, it caused serious injury.”