These Videos Of A Massive Brawl At A Toyota Dealership Leave Us With More Questions Than Answers (UPDATED WITH POLICE STATEMENT)

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A video showing apparent employees of a dealership in California involved in an all-out brawl is making the rounds on the internet. And while I don’t have a ton of information to give you about what precipitated the melee, I can show you the video itself, which is rather absurd.

Update (April 17, 2023 6:15 P.M. ET): I discussed the situation with the Milpitas Police Department. Its representative didn’t have a whole lot to tell me other than that on April 8 “there was a call about a fight. It was between some employees that work [at the dealership].” By the time police had arrived, some parties had already left, so officers are now “contacting people and conducting their investigation.” No medical aid was needed. 

This all went down at Envision Toyota of Milpitas near San Jose (I confirmed this by finding images of the dealership’s showroom, which contains the beautiful vintage car wall-graphics you see in the clip), apparently sometime earlier this month. The clearest video of the altercation comes from Twitter user “ange,” whom I reached out to for more information. Until I hear back, this tweet (which contains tags implying that the fight involved a sales manager or sales managers) are all we have. Have a look at the brawl:

Here are some quotes from the video based on what I can hear (some of the words are difficult to decipher amongst all the hoopla):

“Cut this shit out, cut this shit out right now.” — This seems to come from an unknown person in the room.

These words appear to perhaps come from the white-shirted big guy involved in the fight, though again, it’s not clear:

“You saw what I did to that punk-ass.”

“Mother f*ckers (trying to jump me?)”

“[indecipherable]…drop you, motherf*cker”

And these terms seem be coming from someone in a position of leadership:

“I’m telling you guys [indecipherable]… you guys all gonna go in jail right now.”

“I just called the cops, you wanna be here [indecipherable]…go in jail you can go or leave the lot right now.”

Someone named Ebereto Chan posted to Facebook a video showing a different angle and a little more of the tail end of the fight. Here it is (open it in full-screen):

What started the fight? Who are the parties involved? To these, we don’t have answers. All we have are tweets from ange, the apparent shooter of that top video in the tweet. Here’s what she — someone who “just wanted [her] car serviced” writes in her Twitter thread:

This one’s actually quite funny:

Again, nobody has details on this; even ange isn’t sure what caused the fight, with her Twitter thread being full of only rumors and jokes:

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I’ve reached out to the dealership and to the local police. The former has not responded to my inquiries, and the latter told me it doesn’t yet have a press release to show regarding such an incident, and that police records are not available at this time. (It’s unclear if police records exist. I’ll find out when the office opens tomorrow). If anyone has details on this situation, please email tips@autopian.com.

Top Image: Screengrab from ange (Twitter)

 

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    2. While largely forgotten in the sanitized modern era, the violent roots of celebrations like Toyotathon and Trucktober are still observed on occasion. And the less said about the solstice “fertility festival” that begat Happy Honda-days, the better.

  9. 98% chance that this was the result of credit for a deal being doled out in an unexpected manner by the sales manager. (A split deal!?!? MOTHERFSCKER!!!)

    Auto salespeople tend to be desperate people perpetually on the brink of insolvency. Fuck with the money they are expecting and bad things happen.

  12. Oh, what a feeling.

    With a few exceptions, the attitude of the sales side of my local dealerships is bad; maybe not this bad, but still a bit toxic.

  15. I’ll tell you this much, the big guys in the white shirts will be facing some (likely felony) battery charges because they kept coming. Doesn’t matter how it started, when you keep attacking, you’re going to face charges (as it should be).

    1. I agree. Quite possible that there are a couple broken bones and need for stitches which would make this a potential felony. Hopefully these idiots will stop acting on emotions and start thinking about their actions, but I’ve been trying to get parolees to do that for more than a decade with no luck so far so my hopes aren’t high.

  17. Three suggestions:

    Somebody ate all the donuts? A Seinfeld episode come-to-life?

    The Jerry Springer Show live on location?

    A new reality series, Real Finance Managers of Milpitas?

  18. FYI, Milpitas is essentially north San Jose and is about 120 road miles south of Sacramento. Milpitas is also where Ford had a major assembly plant from 1955 to 1983 which built both Mustangs used in Bullitt and over 2.5 million other vehicles.

      1. I had the misfortune of working at a Hyundai dealership in South Carolina during the early ’90s. Our store was right next to a Dodge store that was staffed almost entirely by non-violent offenders who resided at a nearby halfway house. Every day at 5:30PM a van would show up on the service drive and a half-dozen salespeople would fill it like a clown car.

    3. well over a 2 hour drive. I used to live in Sacramento and went to a friends wedding in Milpitas 😀

      It’s also due south along 880 and 680 from Fremont where NUMMI/Tesla’s plant is

  20. In the 70’s-90’s the western burbs of Chicago had a huge Chevy dealership where the salespersons regularly went to fisticuffs over customers. As a medic in the town it was a regular call for us to deal with a person injured from a fight.

  21. Quick California geography point: Milpitas is in Santa Clara County near San Jose, southeast of San Francisco; it’s nowhere near Sacramento.

  22. Pretty cavalier with the term “brawl” here. That appeared to be a fist fight with some nearby minor scuffle over a thrown piece of furniture. This is directly contrary to Boondock’s claim that a thrown chair will instigate a brawl.

    I can’t tell if white shirt/blue pants is big or lavender shirt guy he pummeled is that little. Either way, smaller guy chose wrong in fight/flight/freeze.

    1. Had the same thing at our local high school. Three kids got into a fight after a basketball game. Sixty kid stood around and captured video of it on their phones. Local media spent the next three days showing video of the “brawl” outside the school.

  24. Whoever is in charge at that dealership needs to get their people in check. Fisticuffs on the sales floor is indicative of a deeply flawed work environment.

  25. Someone stepped on someone else’s shoe and scuffed it, what’s to figure out? That’s why you need to stick with black AF1s, nothing to worry about

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