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quaint

(2,513 posts)
Fri Jun 12, 2020, 02:21 PM Jun 2020

Woman seen in racist rant video in Torrance recorded in 2nd, similar confrontation

KTLA
A woman who sparked outrage when a video recording of her racist rant against a young Asian woman in Torrance went viral on Wednesday surfaced in a second, similar video on Thursday.

The new video, again taken at Charles H. Wilson Park, shows a man confronting the woman and asking her, “Did you just make a racist comment?” The man was with his 11-year-old son.

The woman replied, “I am not a racist person, but you know what, you need to go home,” she said.

“I don’t care about your Facebook or your video. Do you know how many people can’t stand you being here?”

As the conversation continued, the woman said she was calling the police and began speaking to the man in a mock Asian accent, repeating several times, “You understand me, China man?”

The man, who did not want his name published, said he was most disturbed by the fact the profane rant took place in front of his son.

“My dad was innocent and he did nothing wrong, so I was confused,” the boy said.

It was the second time in two days videos have emerged of the same woman berating people with racist remarks.

She was recorded on Wednesday at the same park, where she ranted at a young woman who was doing exercises on a staircase.

“Go back to whatever (expletive) Asian country you belong in,” the woman is heard shouting during the tirade. “This is not your place. This is not your home. We do not want you here.”

WTF
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Iliyah

(25,111 posts)
5. ugh . .
Fri Jun 12, 2020, 02:36 PM
Jun 2020

Sometime you have to act real crazy with these people and talk shit back to them, especially when they tell you to go back to your country - I've said at times when confronted, that Europe is waiting for them.

efhmc

(14,709 posts)
6. "We" don't want you here. Go that right. We do not want her angry racist self and friends
Fri Jun 12, 2020, 02:39 PM
Jun 2020

anywhere.

tblue37

(64,980 posts)
7. She does more than just spew racist rants. From the article linked in the OP:
Fri Jun 12, 2020, 02:42 PM
Jun 2020
snip

Upon seeing the woman on television news, Kayceelyn Salminoa told KTLA she recognized her as the same person who had attacked her in a public restroom last October.

“That’s a voice you don’t forget, that’s a face you don’t forget. Especially what she had done to me,” Salminoa said.

The woman had been berating a cleaning woman when Salminoa said she intervened on the cleaning woman’s behalf. The infuriated woman responded by throwing Salminoa to the ground and threatened her not to get back up, she said.

When Salminoa did begin to get up, “that’s when she physically grabs my hair and pushed me down and starts punching the back of my head.”

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quaint

(2,513 posts)
9. Identified as Lena Hernandez, apparently in hiding.
Sat Jun 13, 2020, 09:34 AM
Jun 2020

Interesting the Torrance police did not take action when Kayceelyn Salminoa reported physical assault by Hernandez back in October, 2019. There is at least one report that Hernandez' daughter is with Torrance PD.

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