--- title: Dunkin Donuts Employee Pours Water on Homeless Man description: Two Dunkin Donuts employees have been suspended after a video of one of them pouring water on a homeless man sleeping at a table went viral. canonical: https://time.com/5412206/dunkin-donuts-employee-water-homeless-man-video/ author: Alix Langone article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-10-02T00:49:23.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:55:12.261Z og:title: Dunkin' Donuts Employees Suspended After Video of Them Pouring Water on a Homeless Man Goes Viral og:description: The man said he was charging his phone to call his mom and say goodnight og:url: https://time.com/5412206/dunkin-donuts-employee-water-homeless-man-video/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb9b7d5f0a0a4edf3/69893b9a7cdbacd51bd5e121/dunkin-donuts-employee-pours-water-homeless-man-video.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 5000 og:image:height: 2813 og:image:alt: Dunkin' Donuts and Baskin-Robbins store in North Brunswick og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Dunkin' Donuts Employees Suspended After Video of Them Pouring Water on a Homeless Man Goes Viral twitter:description: The man said he was charging his phone to call his mom and say goodnight twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb9b7d5f0a0a4edf3/69893b9a7cdbacd51bd5e121/dunkin-donuts-employee-pours-water-homeless-man-video.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Dunkin' Donuts Employee Suspended After Video of Him Pouring Water on a Homeless Man Goes Viral > Sponsored content. 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Michael Brochstein—SOPA Images/LightRocket/Getty Images by [Alix Langone](https://time.com/author/alix-langone/) ## Alix Langone Oct 2, 2018 12:49 AM UTC [A video of a Dunkin’ Donuts employee](https://www.facebook.com/sam.breazeale.7/videos/vb.100002764748738/1544473102321500/?type=2&video%5Fsource=user%5Fvideo%5Ftab) pouring water on a homeless man sleeping at a table inside the store went viral after being posted on Facebook Sunday. The incident took place in Syracuse, N.Y., and resulted in the employees getting suspended from their jobs. “How many times do I have to tell you to stop sleeping in here?” the employee says in the video, just after dumping a bucket of water on the young man, who is resting his head on a table while charging his cell phone. The employee then said he would call the cops unless the man, identified as Jeremy Dufresne, left the store. The owner of the Dunkin’ Donuts franchise, Kimberly Wolak, said both employees involved in the incident have been suspended until a full investigation is conducted in [a statement acquired by the Daily News](http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/ny-news-dunkin-donuts-water-homeless-man-20181001-story.html#). Wolak also said they will be contacting Dufresne to apologize for the way he was treated. The incident appears to have happened on Sunday night when [the video was uploaded](https://www.facebook.com/sam.breazeale.7/videos/1544473102321500/). It has since garnered more than 900,000 views. For his part, Dufresne said he sometimes goes to that Dunkin’ Donuts location to get warm and charge his phone to call his mom and say goodnight to her, which he does every evening, [according to Syracuse.com](https://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2018/10/syracuse%5Fman%5Fwho%5Fhad%5Fwater%5Fdumped%5Fon%5Fhim%5Fin%5Fdunkin%5Fwas%5Fcharging%5Fphone%5Fto%5Fcall%5Fmo.html?utm%5Fcampaign=pennlive%5Fsf&utm%5Fmedium=social&utm%5Fsource=facebook). “He probably had some personal problems of his own and needed someone to talk to,” Dufresne told Syracuse.com. “And he took it out on someone else, like me.” A local advocate for homelessness, Al-amin Muhammad, who runs a program called [We Rise Above The Streets](http://weriseabovethestreets.org/) rallied a group of around 20 demonstrators to show up at the Dunkin’ Donuts to protest Dufresne’s treatment, Syracuse.com reported. A [GoFundMe campaign was started for Dufresne](https://www.gofundme.com/man-sleeping-at-syracuse-dunkin) shortly after the video went viral. 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