‘Go back to India’: Texas woman threatens, assaults Indians, arrested
New Delhi, Aug 26: A video that is being shared across social media shows a woman outside the Sixty Vines restaurant in Texas’ Plano yelling racist remarks at a group of Indian-American women in the restaurant’s parking lot.
In the five-and-a-half minute video, the woman is seen striking one person in the face, swiping at the phones of two of the women filming the incident, and then threatening to shoot them while reaching into her bag.
Despicable. This woman in Texas can’t control her racism and hate of Indian people, harasses four women on street because of their accent and then physically assaults themShame: pic.twitter.com/vgPqPk0Woc
The woman, identified as Esmeralda Upton in a press release by the Plano Police Department, was arrested on Thursday and charged with assault, bodily injury, and terroristic threats. She was being held on a $10,000 bond.
An investigation is currently underway, and the incident is being treated as a hate crime, with the release indicating that additional charges may be forthcoming.
On Thursday, August 25, 2022, at approximately 3:50 p.m., Plano Police Detectives arrested Esmeralda Upton of Plano on one charge of Assault Bodily Injury and one for Terroristic Threats and is being held on a total bond amount of $10,000. A jail photo is attached.
-The India Today
