Texas Woman Arrested After Revolting Racist Attack Against Indian Americans Caught on Video
A woman who terrorized a group of Indian American women in a violently racist outburst in a Texas parking lot has been arrested as footage of the disturbing incident was posted to social media.
Esmeralda Upton is facing charges after the confrontation Wednesday night in the parking lot outside the Sixty Vines restaurant in suburban Dallas, the Plano Police Department confirmed in a statement.
The video shows a woman, who identifies herself as Mexican American, standing in front of the women claiming, “I hate you fucking Indians.” The insults continue as she hurls a number of racist statements at the women and claims “Everywhere I fucking go, you Indians are fucking everywhere.”
She is seen getting physical and pushing one of the women as she orders the group to stop recording video on their cellphones, mocking them as they defend themselves. She puts her hand into her bag as she threatens, “I’m going to fucking shoot your ass.”
As the confrontation went on, one of the women in the group is shown calling 911 and asking for officers to rush to the scene.
A racist woman in Texas harasses a group of Indian people just for having accents.
This behavior is absolutely repulsive. pic.twitter.com/ZvX3mdQ6Wm— Fifty Shades of Whey (@davenewworld_2) August 25, 2022
According to police, officers responded at 8:15 p.m. and upon arrival, “several women advised that they had been assaulted by another woman at the location.”
A Facebook post from one of the women in the group, seen by The Daily Beast, said the woman seemed “totally out of control.”
“Four friends who were spending a nice evening in a free democratic country with rule of law were verbally abused using racial slurs and thereafter, threatened and body shamed by a complete stranger.
“We feared for our lives because she was extremely agitated and seemed totally out of control. We called cops who came in time and diffused the situation.”
Another woman in the group posted to her page: “I have lived in DFW for 29 years and never have I felt so humiliated, threatened, and scared for my life. Can’t believe this is what America has become.”
On Thursday, Plano cops identified Upton and announced her arrest at 3:50 p.m. on one charge of assault bodily injury and one charge of terrorist threats. She is being held on a $10,000 bond. Additional charges may be forthcoming, police said, noting Plano Police Department’s Crime Against Persons Unit is investigating the incident as a hate crime.
Esmeralda Upton.
Plano City Councilman Shelby Williams described the video as “reprehensible.”
“No one—NO ONE—should be faulted for seeking opportunity and a better life in America. People have been seeking freedom and opportunity here since before America was America,” he said in a Facebook post.
“I don’t know whether the ladies in this video are American citizens or guests, but it doesn’t matter—they are deserving of respect and dignity, which they did not receive in this exchange except from the top-notch Plano Police.
“For the record, our Indian community contributes enormously to our country, and pays more taxes per capita than most other tax-paying blocs.
“If you are the woman hurling epithets in this video, or if this describes you, do better.”
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