On November 10, 2023, Daniel Larson experienced a public meltdown at a Panera Bread in Westminster, Colorado. The incident, recorded by bystanders, an employee, and his Discord managers, appears to have been triggered by fans recognizing and harassing him.
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Background
Prior to the incident, Daniel claims to have been followed by trolls to various locations, including Dave & Buster’s, where he was banned for dining and dashing.
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Transcript by daniellarson.wiki:
Daniel: You guys need to shut the fuck up! (takes deep breaths) Don’t be talking like that!
Troll: Talking to Grace VanderWaal!
Daniel: No! I work under fucking management so shut the fuck up! GO AHEAD AND FUCKING RECORD ME! BITCH!
Troll: Look at him, it’s like Bigfoot! It’s like fucking Bigfoot!
[Daniel flips off the troll]
Troll: Holy shit, it’s like Bigfoot dude!
Daniel: I’m calling the police on you! I have you on camera!
Troll: It’s like Bigfoot, holy shit! I never thought I’d see this stuff happen in my whole life. That dude’s a local fucking TikTok user. I fucking thank you!
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The Incident
During the meltdown, Daniel yelled at fans and employees, flipped a table, and threatened violence. Despite being told to leave, he refused and escalated his behavior, eventually punching himself and screaming racial slurs. Police were called, but Daniel was not arrested.
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Transcript by daniellarson.wiki:
Employee #1: unintelligible
Daniel: No, I’m not! Those people are causing the situation! STOP FUCKING FILMING ME, BITCH! (woman recording the video laughs, Employee #1 also begins recording at this point)
Employee #1: You’re cursing, you need to get out of my store right now. Don’t put your hands on me.
Daniel: I’m not putting hands on you! I’m not putting hands on you! Try me! Try me! Try me! TRY ME! TRY ME, BITCH! TRY ME BITCH! TRY ME, BITCH! TRY ME, BITCH! I will fucking murder you! I will fucking murder you, bitch! (Concurrently, Employee #1 continues to tell Daniel to get out of his store, and also tells the woman recording to call the police. Employee #2 also begins speaking to him.)
Woman: Look at this crackhead… Daniel flips a miniature table
Daniel: I can go right fucking ahead! I CAN GO RIGHT FUCKING AHEAD! Fans are leaking my location, bitch! Fans are leaking my location, bitch! BITCH! BITCH! Fans are leaking my location, I’m in fucking danger! (Employee #1 continues to try to speak to Daniel. Employee #2 stares in awe.)
Employee #1: Tell them it’s an emergency; he’s becoming violent.
Woman: I’ve been recording.
Daniel: Fans are leaking my location, I’m fucking famous!
Employee #1: You trespassed, and I’m gonna press charges for you assaulting me.
Daniel: I never assaulted you!
Employee #1: You threatened me! You just-
Daniel: I NEVER PUT HANDS ON YOU, BITCH! I NEVER PUT HANDS ON YOU, BITCH!
Employee #1: That’s assault.
Daniel: smacks his own forehead several times, begins screaming AAAAA!!! AAAAA!!! AAAAA!!!… AAAAA!!! AAAAA!!! AAAAA!!! AAAAA!!! AAAAA!!! AAAAA!!! gets out of chair and prepares to attack Employee #1, but stops just before
Employee #2: WOAH! You better watch it!
Daniel: I NEVER ASSAULTED YOU!
Employee #1: YOU STEP BACK RIGHT NOW!
Daniel: I NEVER ASSAULTED YOU!
Employee #1: STEP BACK RIGHT NOW!
Daniel: goes to sit down and smacks his forehead repeatedly again I NEVER ASSAULTED YOU, BITCH!
Employee #1: You threw a table at me!
Daniel: I NEVER ASSAULTED YOU!
Employee #1: You threw a table at me—
Daniel: JUST BECAUSE THOSE PEOPLE WERE CAUSING A SITUATION YOU FUCKING BLAME ME! (?) (Employee #1 speaks at the same time, hard to make out)
Employee #2: Bro, you should’ve never took the phone-
Employee #1: You’re throwin’ ch-chairs and tables at me!
Daniel hits himself in the head.
Daniel: I NEVER DID ANYTHING! FUCKING PRESS CHARGES ON ME NIGGER! NIGGER! I NEVER DID ANYTHING! (Employee #2, who is black, smiles in disbelief towards the camerawoman. She laughs at the same time.)
Employee #2: Oh my god…
Woman: I got it all on video. Ever since like, he flipped the table.
Employee #1: Don’t worry, we’ll get you someone to take care of you.
Daniel: smacks his forehead No you’re not! I have a lawyer! I HAVE A FUCKING LAWYER! I HAVE A FUCKING LAWYER, DICK! I HAVE A FUCKING LAWYER, NIGGER! NIGGER! NIGGER! You just wanna fucking hate on me!
Woman: Oh nahh… Oh, I’m like-I’m like-
Employee #2: I know, like what kind (?)
Daniel: CAN YOU STOP FUCKING HATING ON ME, NOW I’M FUCKING BLEEDING!
Employee #1: Because you just punched yourself in the face!
Daniel punches himself in the face.
Daniel: AAAAAAAA!!!
Daniel hits himself in the face again.
Employee #1: You were recording the whole time, right? speaking to woman
Daniel: I wanna fucking die! I wanna fucking die, bitch! BITCH ASS NIGGER! BITCH ASS NIGGER! wails
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Daniel’s perspective, captured on Discord, showed his bloody face from self-inflicted punches. He claimed to be banned from Panera Bread, although this remains unverified.
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Transcript by daniellarson.wiki:
Daniel: …press charges. Just because somebody came in here!
Employee 1: No, because you tried to assault me.
Daniel: I never assaulted you.
Employee 1: When you threaten someone physically, it’s assault. I don’t have to explain it to you.
Daniel: I never… I never put hands on you! You, y- OK, so that gives you the right to put hands on me? Wow!
Employee 1: You were going to hit me.
Daniel: You put… you were trying to put hands on me! I put my hands up to block you! My entire family’s gonna be pressing charges! I have investigators, I have people that can like, literally shut this place down! I’m doing absolutely nothing! My fucking face is bleeding because of you!
Employee 1: That’s from punching yourself in the face.
Daniel: No! Because you, you- you tried to press charges on me!
Employee 1: Really?
Daniel: My fucking family’s terrified! [camera flips to show Daniel’s bloodied face]
Employee 1: OK. Well when the police get here, you’ll be safe.
Daniel: Uh, I’m not going to jail! [camera flips to front]
Employee: That’s-
Daniel: Because I didn’t do anything!
Employee 1: That’s for the police to decide.
Daniel: I have it all on film!
Employee 1: You need to get out.
Daniel: I’m a fucking celebrity, you treat me like shit!
Employee 1: Because ‘unintelligible’
Daniel: You wanna try to murder me is what you wanna do!
Employee 1: I wanna make sure you’re safe.
Daniel: No you don’t! You… you wanna press charges! You’ve already stated that!
Employee 1: You threw a table at me.
Daniel: I never threw a table at you, you were across the room. You were standing right where you stand right now. I just moved the table to try to create a barrier so you couldn’t put hands on me. I have my lawyers ready to leak this all over the internet. There was somebody actually trying to do a drive-by shooting. That’s why I came in here. I’m a celebrity, I have rights! I HAVE RIGHTS to protect myself!
Employee: You called people the N-word in here.
Daniel: So you’re saying, you’re saying I can’t fucking protect myself.
Employee 1: No…
Daniel: So go ahead and put hands on me. ‘Daniel gets up’ Cut me with a knife!
Employee 1: No! You’re out of control right now!
Daniel: I’m NOT out of control, OK? I’m not out of control at all! I will make sure this goes all over Hollywood. I will make sure TMZ, 9 News, everybody covers this. A matter of fact, last time I was in jail, they actually cleared the case, got it all lifted, and all of the jail footage was leaked. The police officers lost their job. Cause I’m gonna tell the police that you tried to assault me. Tina, I need you to leak this all over the Internet. I have every single right to record my safety.
Officer: Yeah. Get yourself out. Stand up.
Daniel: Uh… uh, can I, can I talk-
Officer: Uh, unplug your stuff and stand up.
Daniel: Can I talk to you for a moment?
Officer: Sure, as long as you’re standing up while unplugging your phone and walking out of the store.
Daniel: I will be more than happy to do that.
Officer: OK.
Daniel: I- there’s actually a very serious issue that has happened, and I need to report it, and I’ve already called.
Officer: So, ‘unintelligible’ punch yourself in the face and you can’t relax.
Daniel: So, I’m famous, OK. I’ve already got investigations for..
Officer: What are you famous for?
Daniel: I’m a singer-songwriter.
Officer: OK.
Daniel: I have..
Officer: When’s the last time you used drugs or alcohol today?
Daniel: I don’t use drugs and I don’t use alcohol.
Officer: Eyeballs say differently.
Daniel: I always have a dry eye.
Officer: Well, it’s not dry, dilated pupils while you’re inside sitting in a light.
Daniel: That’s because I’m always on my phone.
Officer: Because they would’ve changed back already because you’ve been off your phone for almost a minute. That’s how the eyeballs work.
Daniel: I don’t do drugs and I don’t do alcohol.
Officer: …mental health issues that you’ve been diagnosed with?
Daniel: Just autism.
Officer: Just autism?
Daniel: Yes.
Officer: OK. Do you have any weapons on you I need to know about?
Daniel: I don’t, you can…
Officer: Don’t reach in your pockets, you can leave that alone.
Daniel: But, the- I came in here because I was having an issue with…
Employee 1: You don’t need to do that anymore.
Daniel: I came in here because I was having an issue with the troll/hater in my fanbase community outside threatening me with a gun. OK? They were threatening me to do a drive-by shooting along this shopping center.
Officer: What’s your first name?
Daniel: Daniel.
Officer: Daniel?
Daniel: My last name is Larson. I don’t know who the people..
Officer: What’s your birth date?
Daniel: It’s 11/15/1998.
Officer: 98?
Daniel: Yes
Officer: What’s your phone number, Daniel?
Daniel: I don’t know, because I just got a new number.
Officer: Why are all the tables and shit turned over, Daniel?
Daniel: I- ‘stammers’ the manager tried to put hands on me to escort me outside.
Officer: I don’t think that was probably it.
Daniel: And…
Officer: He says you’re in here acting like a looney-tunes!
Daniel: I… I felt, I felt endangered, and so I… I put…
Officer: So you act like a looney-tunes?
Daniel: I, I knocked down the tables to try to create a barrier so I could be on one side and they could be on the other.
Officer: (interrupting as Daniel finishes) Daniel, I’m gonna be real with ya. That’s a piss poor excuse, bud.
Daniel: But I, I felt in danger.
Officer: So you punched yourself in the face a bunch of times?
Daniel: The manager was threatening to press charges on me.
Officer: So if you come in here flipping tables over, and punching yourself in the face, and they say “leave”, and you say “no”, and they say “yes, we’re gonna trespass you”, and you say “no”, that’s trespassing. Where’d all these fans come from? They just, found you out of nowhere?
Daniel: I, I have- I’m a singer-songwriter. I have music on iHeartRadio.
Officer: What’s your best song?
Daniel: Umm, Roaring Thunder. It has…
Officer: Roaring Thunder?
Daniel: Yes, it has over…
Officer: Play it for me.
Daniel: It has over 5 million views. [Daniel shows Officer his YouTube] This is my entire YouTube. So the list goes on and on.
Officer: I can’t see anything, you’re scrolling so fast.
Daniel: And, I’m even dating this person. (likely a photo of Grace VanderWaal) There’s even…
Officer: Well, look at that!
Daniel: I’m currently homeless.
Officer: You’re homeless, but you got 5 million views on YouTube, don’t they pay you for that?
Daniel: Uh, they do, but I’m dealing with a family crisis…
Officer: Let me see your YouTube page.
Daniel: …and a lot of my money is showing to the family crisis. I’m extremely, extremely famous.
Officer: What’s your, what’s your- do you have a TikTok?
Daniel: I do have a TikTok as well, yes.
Officer: Ah.
Daniel: My… my handle…
Officer: Something freedom?
Daniel: Is um, no, it is… yeah it’s daniellarsonfreedom.
Officer: Someone sent that to our PD, and said and gave that handle to that TikTok.
Daniel: Yes.
Officer: It doesn’t have a big party. Are you part of some group?
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Officer: Why did you punch yourself in the face a bunch of times?
Daniel: Um, I’m- I’m getting banned – I’m getting banned from so many places, I’m struggling to make a living. That’s the issue.
Officer: Why’d you get banned from all of them?
Daniel: Like I was saying, because fans are coming in, trolls, I don’t have security.
Officer: Uh, I don’t feel like that’s the issue. I feel like it’s the yelling at staff, flipping tables over, punching yourself until you bleed.
Daniel: See, I only did because the manager was…
Officer: Daniel, that literally makes zero sense. The manager was threatening you saying you harmed yourself?
Daniel: He, he threat-, he threatened to be… he threatened to press charges on me, and I knew I was innocent.
Officer: You weren’t! He asked you to leave, you said no, that’s trespassing! You’re guilty… guilty as shit right now, bud!
Daniel: Right. Right and I just told him like, I don’t feel safe, please call the police.
Officer: So you punched yourself in the face a bunch of times.
Daniel: He said he was- distance against him, I felt endangered.
Officer: Did you make threats towards him?
Daniel: I did, yes.
Officer: Why did you do that?
Daniel: Because… if you look at it from my perspective, OK, I come in here out of concern…
Officer: I don’t see any point in your perspective.
Daniel: OK. You guys hear me? Can you guys hear me? Hello? OK, Bob is doing to help and I will fucking go to his house with a gun and I will kill him. He’s basically leaving me to die. Right now, there’s actual cars right now following me planning a murder. OK, and Bob is being a fucking n—r because he’s doing nothing to help!
[Daniel is taken to the hospital]
Daniel: OK, the jackass, excuse my language. But the manager, OK, decided they were gonna ban me.
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Aftermath
Once Daniel left the premises, and started to slowly cool down again, he went on to mention the incident in multiple YouTube community post, most of which have unfortunately been lost to time, luckily a couple have been preserved though.
Original Post Date: Unknown, presumed either late November 10th or early November 11th.
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Originally posted: Saturday, November 11, 2023 at 15:50:41 UTC, on reddit.
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Originally posted: Saturday November 11, 2023 at 17:43:29 UTC on reddit.
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Originally posted: Sunday November 12, 2023 at 04:52:47 UTC on reddit.
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Sometime between November 11th & 16th, reddit user u/185742ff visited the Panera Bread location and asked the manager some questions. He uploaded his post featuring this information on November 16, 2023.
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Impact
Commentator Coverage:
This Incident has been covered by SmokeyMcC:
Sources: Panera Bread Incident – Daniel Larson Wiki, archive.org, archive.org, reddit discussion, archive.org