CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. -- A clerk at an adult video store is recovering after a man walked in and kicked her in the face, police said.

The attack was caught on a surveillance camera.

According to police, the clerk was walking over to the suspect to help him when he extended his leg in a side kick, knocking her square in the face and onto the ground.

She said the man then ran off with several videos and adult toys.

The clerk suffered injuries to the right side of her face as a result of the attack.

"I don't know how to describe it. I mean, I couldn't open my right eye and the doctors say my bone, the bone on my face may be broken," clerk Sue Su said.

Su said that even though her attacker knocked her down, he did not destroy her fighting spirit.