Responding officers found that an employee at the restaurant had been punched in the face multiple times "after protecting an individual with an intellectual disability from being bullied."The victim, 19-year-old Bianca Palomera, said the suspect allegedly used slurs toward someone she identified as her co-worker's brother and threatened "to beat him up," according to NBC Bay Area.Palomera fought back and was hit again multiple times, NBC Bay Area reported.He was turned over to Antioch police and charged with felony counts of mayhem and aggravated assault causing great bodily injury, according to the statement."This is probably the last thing that I would've expected out of anything, but I don't fully regret, you know, helping, stepping in," she told NBC Bay Area."