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Racist confrontation in Plano: What the video shows (Original Post)
IronLionZion
Aug 2022
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ItsjustMe
(11,695 posts)1. She's been arrested
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/plano-woman-arrested-following-anti-south-asian-rant-caught-on-video/ar-AA116Fr2?OCID=ansmsnnews11
In a video shared on Reddit, a woman confirmed by police to be Esmeralda Upton is seen verbally berating a group of women in a parking lot, saying I hate you [expletive] Indians and other comments against people of South Asian heritage, and threatening to shoot them. Police were unable to confirm the nationality of the victims, but community members who know them said they are of South Asian heritage.
In a video shared on Reddit, a woman confirmed by police to be Esmeralda Upton is seen verbally berating a group of women in a parking lot, saying I hate you [expletive] Indians and other comments against people of South Asian heritage, and threatening to shoot them. Police were unable to confirm the nationality of the victims, but community members who know them said they are of South Asian heritage.
IronLionZion
(46,968 posts)2. She doesn't like people existing
IronLionZion
(46,968 posts)3. Another video
tblue37
(66,035 posts)4. Looks to me like she also spit on Ms. Bannerjee.
DFW
(56,526 posts)5. Could have been my dentist.
She is Indian and has her practice in Plano.
RAB910
(3,954 posts)6. When you read about the GOP getting some Hispanic support, these are the sort of people they get
geardaddy
(25,342 posts)7. Ugh
It's just so revolting.