Indian-American Women Racially Abused In The US

Recently, in Dallas, Texas, an incident of racially abused took place. In the incident, 4 Indian-American women were racially abused and smacked by a Mexican-American woman. The woman hurled racist slurs at them that they were “ruining” America and should “go back to India.”

“I hate you, Indian. All these Indians come to America because they want a better life,” Esmeralda Upton is seen saying in the video. The video shows her telling the group of women to “Go back to India. You… people are ruining this country,” CBS News reported.

The video has now gone viral and sent shock waves among the Indian-American community across the US. The video shows Upton using racial slurs and, at one point, physically smacking at least two of the women. The person who posted this video wrote, “this incident occurred in Dallas, Texas after my mom and her three friends went to dinner.”

The woman has now been arrested and charged with assault, bodily injury, and terroristic threats and is being held on a total bond amount of USD 10,000. This incident is currently under investigation by the Plano Police Department’s Crime Against Persons Unit as a hate crime.

Groups in North Texas with ties to the South Asian American community condemned the attack and said they were relieved that a suspect had been arrested.