""I was making sandwiches, but I couldn't hear the orders because he was screaming," Melo said. "I went around the counter and told him to leave. He said, 'I want to fight you. I'm going to f-ing kill you. Any one of you come outside and fight,' Melo said. "I grabbed a cup of hot coffee, ready to chuck it at Hill if necessary, but put the cup down because I didn't think Hill would go through with it, he said.""
""When I got up, I saw all the blood and thought I was bleeding. I went to the bathroom to clean up and I realized it was his blood." He added, "I didn't see (fellow clerk Mukel) Shaibi hit him because he was on top of me and we were fighting. After the fight Shaibi showed me the stick he was hitting him with. It was broken. It was a stick we used to break ice with.""
A 48-year-old bodega worker said a 59-year-old customer stormed into the Royal Deli & Grill on Knickerbocker Ave. in Bushwick looking for trouble and screaming threats. The worker says the customer punched him, a fight broke out on the floor, and a fellow clerk struck the customer with a broken ice-breaking stick. The worker says he initially picked up a cup of hot coffee but set it down and later realized the blood was the customer's. Police questioned both clerks and released them without charges. The Brooklyn district attorney's office is investigating while the United Bodega Association supports the workers' self-defense claim.
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