A video showing ESPN reporter Britt McHenry verbally attacking a tow truck company cashier for her weight, lack of education, no skill set has blown up into a national story. The story of how this all went down starts in Arlington, Virginia at a parking lot where McHenry says she was eating at a Chinese restaurant called Hunan. That’s when Advanced Towing (the locals claim that the towing company is horrible and has a history of shady business practices) comes into the story. They towed McHenry’s car and leads us to the video that has been leaked today. 
 
 @ARLnowDOTcom in the Hunan parking lot, where I ate dinner. On a Sunday night! — Britt McHenry (@BrittMcHenry) April 6, 2015 
 
 The attendant, named Gina Michelle, warned McHenry that she was being recorded and she wasn’t lying. Gina has spent the last 10 days or so trying to get the story into the hands of the local media, finally succeeding with the video. She’s been pretty active on Facebook where she claims to have been blocked from posting to McHenry’s Facebook wall. 
 
 Gina wrote on April 6: 
 
 I have the entire transaction on video tape of Brittany McHenry. I have her insulting the dispatcher telling her to lose weight and belittling her for doing her job. As a woman in the public eye and posting on her Facebook page about negative words hurting others, is this appropriate? She parked her car and came back 2 hours after the establishment closed (meaning she was not a customer the whole time) and insulted another woman’s weight. Is THIS ok? And when I post the video you’ll say I deserved to be called fat. Bottom line is she got towed. She should not have left her car unattended in a private lot to patronize another bar. Be angry or upset, you don’t insult someone’s looks because you think you’re above them. 
 
 The bottomline: Take Uber. 
 
 Update: McHenry has apologized but not to Gina. 
 
 In an intense and stressful moment, I allowed my emotions to get the best of me and said some insulting and regrettable things. As frustrated as I was, I should always choose to be respectful and take the high road. I am so sorry for my actions and will learn from this mistake. ||||| Britt McHenry, a Washington D.C.-based bureau reporter for ESPN, has been suspended one week by the network following the release of a video tape on Thursday in which she is seen berating a towing company worker. “I’m in the news, sweetheart,” says McHenry on the video. “I will f------ sue this place.” 
 
 In what appears to be an edited tape, the woman at the towing establishment then threatens to play the video of the interaction. McHenry is shown on the tape responding. 
 
 “I wouldn’t work in a scumbag place like this,” she says. “That’s all you care about, taking people’s money. With no education, no skill set, just wanted to clarify that. Do you feel good about your job?... So I can be a college dropout and do the same thing?... Maybe if I was missing some teeth they would hire me, huh?... I’m in television and you’re in a f------ trailer, honey.” 
 
 The video ends with McHenry telling the attendant to, “Lose some weight, baby girl.” 
 
 As of this writing, McHenry has not responded to an email from SI.com but did release a statement on Twitter: 
 
 "In an intense and stressful moment, I allowed my emotions to get the best of me and said some insulting and regrettable things," McHenry said. "As frustrated as I was, I should always choose to be respectful and take the high road. I am so sorry for my actions and will learn from this mistake." 
 
 The Busted Coverage website identified the worker as Gina Michelle and posted a piece on her here. 
 
 Prior to joining ESPN in 2014, McHenry worked as a sports reporter in Washington, D.C., at ABC7/WJLA-TV and at News Channel 8. She began her career in Washington as a community reporter and weekend morning-show anchor. McHenry earned a master’s degree from Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism and holds a bachelor’s degree from Stetson University, where she was a member of the school’s soccer team. 
 
 At the time of McHenry's hiring, ESPN senior vice president and director of news Vince Doria praised her newsgathering abilities. 
 
 “In a relatively short time, Britt has established a reputation for strong, aggressive reporting in the D.C. area, and an ability to land big interviews,” said Doria. “Her presence there will be a great benefit to ESPN’s newsgathering, and, as with all of our bureau reporters, she will be assigned to high-profile stories around the country.”
– ESPN reporter Britt McHenry won't be on the air for a week—the network has suspended her after a videotape surfaced in which she insults a cashier for a towing company in nasty fashion. Some not-so-pleasant examples, as compiled by Deadspin and Sports Illustrated. “I’m in the news sweetheart, I will f---ing sue this place.” “That’s all you care about, taking people’s money. With no education, no skill set, just wanted to clarify that." "Maybe if I was missing some teeth they would hire me, huh?” "Lose some weight, baby girl." The trouble started when McHenry's car got towed April 6 in Arlington, Va., as she was eating in a Chinese restaurant. The video was recorded when she went to pick up her car. McHenry apologized today via Twitter: "In an intense and stressful moment, I allowed my emotions to get the best of me and said some insulting and regrettable things," she wrote, adding, "I am so sorry for my actions and will learn from this mistake." The cashier, Gina Michelle, had been pushing for the story to go public since it happened, reports Busted Coverage. That didn't occur until the video, which appears to be edited, showed up on LiveLeak.