World News | Woman Arrested After Racist Rant, Assault in Restaurant Lot
Get latest articles and stories on World at LatestLY. A woman has been arrested and faces a possible hate crime charge after she was captured on video in a racist rant and assault on women of South Asian descent in a suburban Dallas parking lot, officials said on Thursday.
Plano, Aug 26 (AP) A woman has been arrested and faces a possible hate crime charge after she was captured on video in a racist rant and assault on women of South Asian descent in a suburban Dallas parking lot, officials said on Thursday.
Plano police said in a statement that Esmeralda Upton, 58, of Plano, was arrested and charged with misdemeanor assault and terroristic threat charges. She remained in city jail Thursday with bond set at USD 10,000.
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The statement said the incident also was being investigated as a hate crime. Jail officials had no attorney listed for Upton.
The incident happened shortly after 8 pm Wednesday outside a Plano restaurant. A widely circulated video recorded by the women of Indian descent showed Upton unleashing a profanity-laced rant on them, challenging their presence in the United States, threatening to shoot them and physically assaulting the woman shooting the video.
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It was unclear from the video what, if anything, triggered the rant and assault.(AP)
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