Four Indian American girls, who had been leaving a restaurant in Plano, Texas Aug. 24 night had been bodily and verbally assaulted within the parking zone by a lady who yelled racist slurs equivalent to “I hate you fucking Indians.”

“Go back to India. You curry-assed people are ruining this country,” yelled the perpetrator, within the incident which was captured on video. At one level in her tirade, the suspect, Esmeralda Upton, started repeatedly punching one of many girls, Rani Banerjee. She then began rifling by way of her purse and yelled: “I swear to God, I’m going to shoot your fucking ass.”

“I have never been so terrified in my life,” Banerjee, an engineer, informed India Currents. “I have lived in the Dallas Fort Worth area for 29 years and nothing like this has ever happened to me before.”

Racist Slurs

“We were leaving the restaurant, heading to our cars, and saying our long goodbyes when this woman started yelling at us. We had said nothing to her,” mentioned Banerjee. “She started advancing towards me, saying all these hurtful things about Indians. And then she started hitting me.”

Banerjee mentioned she didn’t need to go to the hospital. But a day after the assault, she nonetheless bears bodily and emotional scars. “Even now, I feel terrified, shaken,” she mentioned.

‘I Was Terrified’

The sufferer was together with her mates Sabori Saha, Anamika Chatterjee and Bidisha Rudra, who weren’t assaulted.

A lady hurled verbal and bodily assaults on a bunch of Indian American girls Aug. 24 night in a Plano, Texas parking zone. The video has gone viral on social media.

Plano police arrested Upton on Aug. 25 afternoon. She has been charged with one rely of Assault Bodily Injury and one rely of terroristic threats. Additional expenses could also be added, in line with police.

Hate Crime

Upton is being held on a complete bond quantity of $10,000. According to her file on the Plano, Texas inmate locator, Upton has not bailed out as of Aug. 25 night.

Plano police mentioned they’re investigating the incident as a hate crime. The internet portal Stop AAPI Hate has recorded greater than 11,000 situations of hate crimes or hate incidents since March, 2020.

‘You Indians Are Everywhere’

“All these fucking Indians. You come to our country and you want everything,” mentioned Upton, as she superior in direction of the group of girls. “Look at the way you speak. I am a Mexican American, and I speak English.”

“Everywhere I go, you Indians are fucking everywhere,” shouted Upton.

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