Horrific video shows gang batter young woman for 'sitting on their whopper burger'

Horrific footage has emerged showing the moment a women claims she was brutally beaten up because she sat on a burger.

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American Myriah Pointer, 23, was apparently knocked unconscious during the assault in Atlanta, Georgia and suffered two black eyes, chipped teeth and heavy bruising.

The video shows a group of women punching and kicking the prone victim who is lying on the ground.

Pointer said it was her friends that carried out the attack - because she sat on the wrapper of one of their Whopper Jr burgers bought from Burger King.

Assaulted: Pointer's face after the bizarre incident

She said to Atlanta's WSB-TV: "By someone your call your best friend.

"I'm more hurt emotionally than physically.

"I wouldn't wish this on my worst enemy."

She said that her friends also taped the assault, which allegedly took place in front of the three-year-old child of one of the attackers and one of their boyfriends.

Pointer is clear what needs to happen to the assailants.

She said: "They need to serve time."

Police say they are aware of the video and are investigating the incident.