This is the shocking moment a bouncer punches a transgender woman in the face leaving her with a horrific black eye after shouting transphobic slurs at her.

Lynette Matusik, who captured part of the assault with a camera inside her Meta Smart Glasses, claims she was the victim of a hate crime.

She was out for the night with friends last Friday night and looking to cap it off at Billy Jack’s Shack, a popular restaurant and bar in Charlotte, North Carolina.

‘I was just bouncing around,’ Matusik said. ‘I was looking for food at the end of the night and I went into Billy Jack’s Shack.’ 

But she claims she was grabbed by the arm by the bouncer, lifted into the air, thrown to the ground and throttled while being pummeled with homophobic abuse. 

Lynette Matusik, who captured part of the assault with a camera inside her Meta Smart Glasses, claims she was the victim of a hate crime

When she walked in, she claims she was grabbed by the arm by a man and lifted into the air, thrown to the ground and ended up with his arm around her throat while he yelled homophobic language

‘Whoa, hey, get your hands off me,’ she says as he grabs her and informs him she’s recording this. ‘I don’t care,’ the bouncer replies before Matusik asks: ‘Why are you choking me?’

‘I asked you for your ID,’ the bouncer responds. Matusik disputes that he’d ever asked for identification.

The assailant, who claimed Matusik bit his thigh, called police after she had been taken outside. Authorities and medics responded and transported her to a hospital.

Her body was left injured and bruised, including a brutal black eye.  

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When shown video of the incident, he declined to comment if it was warranted but the company has since said that no one should be choked by security, WCNC reported.

Gridiron Protection Services, the company hired to provide security for Billy Jack’s, has no record of even applying for a license to do security work, an illegal but common practice in the state, according to the Charlotte Observer. 

‘They’re not security, and I’m not going to use that word,’ Matusik said.

Matusik says her body was left injured and bruised, including a brutal black eye

Gridiron Protection Services, the company hired to provide security for Billy Jack’s, has no record of even applying for a license to do security work, an illegal but common practice in the state

Unarmed guards are mandated by law to go through a 16-hour course that covers fundamentals, with a 20-hour course for armed guards. 

The bar posted a statement to its social media channels last Sunday saying that they’d cut ties with Gridiron and claiming the incident ‘contradicts the very thing’ Billy Jack’s Shack stands for.  

North Carolina’s Private Protective Services Board said it will be launching an investigation into Gridiron, who have yet to comment on the situation.

In the past two years, the board says it has investigated 74 North Carolina security companies for being unlicensed and six in Charlotte alone. 

Because of the alleged bite to the security guard, only Matusik has been charged in this incident, receiving a simple assault rap. 

Matusik shared her video hoping ‘that shedding light on this incident will spur a broader discussion on the safety and security measures’ and says the biting accusation is ‘ridiculous.’ 

She is demanding the case be investigated as a hate crime.