Two women charged in attack of Spanish-speaking mother, daughter
Source: kiro7.com
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February 29, 2020 - 2:27 PM
EAST BOSTON, Mass. Two women from Revere were charged in an unprovoked attack against a mother and daughter speaking Spanish in East Boston.
Jenny Leigh Ennamorati is charged with two counts of assault, two counts for serious crimes of violating constitutional rights with bodily injury and one charge of assault for using her foot to cause bodily harm.
Stephanie M. Armstrong is charged with two counts of assault and two counts for serious crimes of violating constitutional rights with bodily injury.
Both the victims and each witness claim Ennamorati and Armstrong began yelling at the mother and her daughter and then attacked them physically because they were speaking in Spanish. They all say the attack was unprovoked.
The alleged attack happened on Jan. 15 in the area of Maverick Square when Mrs. Vasquez, who declined to give her full name to protect her daughter, was walking home from the train station after leaving a birthday dinner with her daughter and a friend.
The group had been speaking in Spanish as they left the train station when they were approached by two women. Vasquez says they came charging at the group from across the street, yelling: This is America, speak English. We dont speak Spanish here..................................
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I see this as a hate crime. article not discuss this.
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dhol82
(9,353 posts)Wonder how she would have reacted if they had been attacked?
Chances are they do have a close relative who speaks Italian.
I used to be accosted for not looking white enough for some when I lived in that part of the country. Once in while the attackers got violent.
llashram
(6,265 posts)Boston five years. Very racist and S. Boston there worst
I was born there and spent most of my childhood in New England, as a slightly darker than pearly white female in the 60s and 70s was not much fun anywhere I went. I had assholes tell me how they wanted to rape me, yelled out critiques of my attire, my hair (?), and anything else they took note of. And the women can be exceptionally nasty.
lunasun
(21,646 posts)showed up speaking perfect English . Terrible it turned violent bad enough the verbal assault
Hate crime
and what always hurts them- law$uit
dalton99a
(81,576 posts)Ennamorati said on her Facebook page that she was married in January 2018. Ennamoratis maiden name had been Jenny Leigh Morgan. In April 2016, Ennamorati shared a meme from the group, I Love Being Mexican.
https://heavy.com/news/2020/02/jenny-ennamorati-stephanie-armstrong/
CaptYossarian
(6,448 posts)something similar.
Otherwise, STFU!
dhol82
(9,353 posts)WTF?
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Evolve Dammit
(16,763 posts)iluvtennis
(19,871 posts)mahina
(17,697 posts)Bengus81
(6,932 posts)Flip the coin and make the Hispanic women or black women the attackers of that pooooorrrr white woman and they'd been in handcuffs in two minutes.
This is the on going reality of Trump country.
CaptYossarian
(6,448 posts)dhol82
(9,353 posts)Odd, no?
Traildogbob
(8,801 posts)Our white ancestors came HERE and demanded native Americans speak English and worship their hate mongering God.
McKim
(2,412 posts)This turns my stomach as a retired bilingual teacher! I speak Spanish all the time in public with my friends and it is my first amendment right. The perpetrators should be arrested! This is terrible, the fallout from having a racist president!
Karadeniz
(22,572 posts)A suspicion that all souls originate from a shared Source, making for a brotherhood.
kimbutgar
(21,188 posts)Points. But MF45 has raised the level of racism to high levels and minorities are experiencing attacks like these more then ever before. I see minorities being more nervous around whites people. And almost everyone I know who is a minority has commented that they have been treated differently since mf45 has been elected. I stepped in recently when this old white woman told an Asian women to speak English. I told the old woman the lady had a right to speak whatever language she wants because this America! A bunch of people around me where nodding in agreement with me. And this is a liberal area of SF.
Iggo
(47,565 posts)Um, yeah we do, lady. And you should, too.
I'm getting a little tired of people who speak two languages being attacked by people who speak only one.
dhol82
(9,353 posts)Go check out her FB page.
Haggis for Breakfast
(6,831 posts)I'm getting a little tired of people who speak two languages being attacked by people who can't even think in one.
Hope that's okay.
For years, I volunteered in the Deaf Community, as I Sign. You would NOT BELIEVE the level of harassment The Deaf have to contend with from ignorant, intolerant bigots. Many a time, I have felt compelled to stand up for a Deaf person I was with in some store or shop. It makes me physically ill that these people exist and feel entitled to harass The Deaf.
murielm99
(30,762 posts)who are blonde and German-American, speak Spanish. They use it in their work.
I love going to big cities where I hear every language imaginable.
I think our diversity as humans makes us more inquisitive about everything. It helps us to advance and prosper.
What a poor world we would have if we were all alike.
Vivienne235729
(3,384 posts)DFW
(54,437 posts)I tell them, "no you don't. You speak European. You don't speak a word of American, unless you somehow managed to move England from Europe to here--or unless you speak Navajo, Hopi, Inuit, Nahuatl, Seminole or some other American language."
The usual response from Trumpanzees is "Huh?"
Hotler
(11,445 posts)stores and check out lines just to piss off the repugs.
https://www.duolingo.com/
Free language lesson.