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Racist confrontation in Plano: What the video shows (Original Post)
IronLionZion
Aug 2022
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ItsjustMe
(11,949 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
(47,315 posts)2. She doesn't like people existing
IronLionZion
(47,315 posts)3. Another video
tblue37
(66,066 posts)4. Looks to me like she also spit on Ms. Bannerjee.
DFW
(56,979 posts)5. Could have been my dentist.
She is Indian and has her practice in Plano.
RAB910
(3,959 posts)6. When you read about the GOP getting some Hispanic support, these are the sort of people they get
geardaddy
(25,375 posts)7. Ugh
It's just so revolting.