Mexican-American female arrested after racist attack on four Indian women

WASHINGTON: Police in PlanoTexas, arrested a Mexican-American woman on Thursday on charges of assault and “terroristic threats” after she attacked four Indian women in a parking lot as they came out of a restaurant in a shocking incident captured on videos that have since gone viral.
Authorities said the woman, identified as Esmeralda Uptonis also being investigated for hate crime, and additional charges may be forthcoming. She is being held on a bond of $10,000, police said, releasing what they described as “jail photo.”

The incident took place on Thursday night in Plano, a Dallas suburb with significant Indian population, when the four Indian women emerged from a restaurant and headed towards their cars in a largely empty parking lot. They are accosted by Upton, who launches into a racist rant saying “We don’t want you here….Go back to India.”

“You curry-assed people are ruining this country,” she rages. When the Indian women ask her why she did she walk up too them to talk uninvited, she rages, “Because I hate you fucking Indians, that’s why.”

As the bewildered Indian women recover and ask her how she could be talking like that when she herself — obvious from her accent– is a Latina the woman says in a Hispanic accent, “I’m Mexican-American. I speak English,” the irony totally lost on her.
The MAGA effect: One fine evening in a Texas parking lot…
By this time the Indian women have been recording the exchange on their cell phones, agitating Upton, who strikes out at the women in an effort to grab the phones. At one point she threatens them with dire consequences and dips her hand into a large handbag seeming to reach for a weapon.
Amid much panic, one of the Indian women reaches 911 and relates the ongoing incident to the police, who rush a patrol car to the spot. By this time, Upton, probably having realized she is in trouble, tries to make amends and offers a handshake, but she is rebuffed.
Police arrested her nearly 20 hours after the incident as videos of the attack went viral, causing many people to ask why she was not arrested on the spot and why the cops gave her so much time.
Many people of Mexican and Hispanic heritage condemned the attack and said the incident was not representative of how the community thought or felt about immigrants, considering they themselves constitute the largest group of immigrants in America.
For the Indian women, the shock was severe enough to share on social media.
“I have lived in DFW (Dallas Fort Worth area) 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,” Rani Banerjee, one of the victims, wrote. “Because this matter is under investigation, we have been advised not to discuss this further at this time,” she added in an update.