He is asked by a Mexican-American to ‘go back to India’.
He is asked by a Mexican-American to ‘go back to India’.
Four Indian-American women have been racially abused and assaulted in the US state of Texas by a Mexican-American woman who hurled racist slurs at her that she was “ruining” America and that she should “go back to India”.
The incident occurred on the night of Wednesday, August 24, 2022, in a parking lot in Dallas, Texas. The woman, who has now been arrested, is seen in the video identifying herself as Mexican-American and attacking a group of Indian-Americans.
In the video, Esmeralda Upton is seen saying, “I hate you Indians. All these Indians come to America because they want a better life.”
In the video she is seen telling a group of women “Go back to India. You… people are ruining this country,” CBS News informed of.
The video has now gone viral and has sent shock waves among the Indian-American community across the United States.
The video shows Upton using racial slurs, and at one point physically assaulted at least two women.
The person who posted the video wrote, “This incident happened in Dallas, Texas after my mother and her three friends went to dinner.”
The mother is seen protesting the arguments made by the Mexican-American woman and requesting not to use racial slurs. At one point, a Mexican-American woman, who she says was born in the United States, is also seen assaulting her mother and her other friends.
‘You are all over the place’
In the video she is seen shouting, “Wherever I go… you are Indian… Everywhere.” “If life in India was so great, why are you here,” she f– She shouted while pouring words and suddenly started assaulting four Indian women.
Plano police detectives arrested Esmeralda Upton of Plano on Thursday afternoon. He has been charged with assault, bodily injury and terroristic intimidation and is being held on bond amounts totaling $10,000.
Reema Rasool said on Twitter, “This is so scary. She really had a gun and wanted to shoot because these Indian-American women had English-speaking accents. Disgusting. This terrifying woman is on trial for a hate crime. need to run.”
The incident is currently being investigated as a hate crime by the Crime Against Persons Unit of the Plano Police Department.
Groups in North Texas with links to the South Asian American community condemned the attack and said they were relieved that a suspect had been arrested.
India Association of North Texas President Urmeet Juneja said that he feels that North Texas has largely been a welcoming and safe place for people of South Asian descent, Dallas Morning News informed of.
“We are glad that law enforcement has acted swiftly and arrested this person. Nevertheless, we also think that they should conduct a fair investigation and get to the bottom of the matter and bring this hate crime investigation to a conclusion,” Mr Juneja said.
Satwik Ahluwalia, a spokesman for the Asian Texans for Justice, said, “The events in Plano remind me of the stories my parents and their friends told me over and over again in the wake of 9/11 – fellow Americans telling them to others and enemies. as seen.” The report is quoted as saying.
Chanda Parbhu, executive director of the South Asian American Voter Engagement of Texas, said in a statement: “While we are relieved our community members are safe, hearing their cries for help from verbal, physical and racist abuse. The woman had opened up. That dark parking lot is infuriating.”