Local Woman Caught on Camera Berating Employee in Racist Tirade

Context is very helpful. Huge thanks GENERALTREE for that link to the full story. I am so grateful that we have honest, decent, caring and generous people like Ian Soleimani in our community. I wish there was some way to convey our support to him to let him know how much we appreciate him.

GT - good point, that's a wrap for me on this one!

GT - @12:36 The link is greatly appreciated. Thanks for the "sleuthing"...

Sacjon - Bene is busily writing her in depth investigative report charging us with liable and bullying to present to authorities that don't actual exist - we better lay low today ;)

GT - wow..... so he WAS right to start filming given his lengthy history of being the brunt of racial rants at his job. Huh.... go figure. Ol Bene was not just wrong, she was completely wrong!

Sacjon - this article has more information on the young man if you scroll down.
https://www.rawstory.com/racist-woman-viral-video/

I thought I read somewhere that the guy filming this was/is also an employee of the restaurant? Is that so?

@Robert, the context is she didn't pay her bill and the restaurant said pay or we'll keep your ID. She didn't like them keeping her ID and starting saying crazy unhinged stuff, raising her voice in public. A guy walking up saw the interaction and started filming, presumably as evidence if the restauranteur is harmed or there's some frivolous lawsuit.

Duke - you come from the party stealing rights from women - so I don't think you are the best to discuss Misogyny. I'm voting for Saucido - who is a woman. Your logic is flawed.

GT - it’s interesting (and illustrative) that you bring Lazano into this. Since she’s a PE teacher and was willing to be fired because she had gotten Covid and didn’t want the vaccine she’s somehow racist (or at least racists vote for her)? Is it because she’s a woman that has a different political leaning than you that you’ve railed so hard against her, or..what?

She does seem like an angry drunk! Wasn't her bill $20? That's a little more than 1 drink at the Boat House...

@6:08 - Zing!! oh wait it's a double zinger!!

This is probably the only thing I've ever agreed with you about-- drunk seems likely.

There are no white knights for her. NO ONE could truly be on her side, got it? It is disingenuous of you to use this as a weopan against others who may disagree about tactics of dealing with people. People who are discussing this who are not wanting to call for a public hanging and getting out the dogs and torches to torch the vampire, are not on her side. If they are like me, they are apalled at the potential harm to OTHER people who may be innocent from people hoping for internet fame filming and inflaming. I personally know of a domestic violence victim who was screaming at her abuser and people thought she was the bad one. THere is potential for abuse with this phenomenon.

GT - you're likely correct. Solo day drinking at the Boathouse doesn't seem like a tourist or lower income local. Either way, blaming mental illness for everything from racism to gun violence is beginning to trend among our conservative friends. Easy to blame something over which you have no control! But, let's not go down that rabbit hole here. I hope I don't regret bringing it up!

Sacjon I got odds that she drove away in a BMW

GT - exactly. Her white knights here all blaming mental illness without a shred of evidence.

I disagree with your interpretation of the video, Bene.

EastBeach, I detest this woman and her actions. But to be honest and to be moral I refuse to resort to lies just to prove a point or to do a "pile on" against an evildoer. In her case or anyone else's. Most sixth graders even could figure out she was being sarcastic when saying he saved her life. She was clearly making a dig at his motives and lack of need for him to be filming.

YIN - my bad then, sorry. I don't know why I do this, honestly. I guess I can't let things go sometimes ;)

Bene at 6:17, this is just what I wanted to prevent. Sorry I came off "woo hoo," I did not mean to!
But do look at the stars and know life will go on after humans are gone. :-)

Bene, about filming, no. It's like in vino veritas (sorry I don't know Latin). She showed her true colors.

Bene at 5:41:

You say: "Filming someone, especially if they are in a very humiliating moment, is most certainly shaming and incendiary. It's likely that you know better and would feel ashamed yourself if someone filmed you when you were having an argument. If you are being honest and truly cannot understand this and would not feel ashamed yourself, you are not like most people, and I can't help you with any further words. "

I say, as a minority, indeed, I cannot imagine and have never said anything that I am or ever was ashamed of!

YIN YANG - I don't like racists, that's all. People who defend them, with this much intensity, well..... not cool. You seem real hip and happy, good for you. Glad racism doesn't bother you.

YinYang, you clearly are a person who sees the bigger picture and strives for good.
Thank you for pointing out that there are powers stronger than us and a universe bigger than us. This is comforting and puts things in perspective.

Sac at 5:51, this is all getting really personal. What IS your stake in this game? Just saying that our energies can be better spent.

So be it. Good for downvoters, I'd probably do the same. There is zero nuance in any discourse, and zero opportunity for it. I usually feel the same. Now I'm convinced.

Do you really think some of the things you say, or just reaching for anything to use to make your points? Let's get real here. She was sooooooo clearly being sarcastic!!! OBVIOUSLY, she was saying that to scorn the idea that he needed to be filming her. SHeesh!

"BTW, do you think anyone who witnessed that brave African American serviceman who gave his life to jump in the river and save a drowning immigrant could remain a racist?" - What? I don't know what you're even talking about anymore.....

Filming someone, especially if they are in a very humiliating moment, is most certainly shaming and incendiary. It's likely that you know better and would feel ashamed yourself if someone filmed you when you were having an argument. If you are being honest and truly cannot understand this and would not feel ashamed yourself, you are not like most people, and I can't help you with any further words. But can you truly say you are making it a better world and putting less hate into the world by having someon e who thinks badly of people of color now be even more angry at them because she thinks one filmed her for hoping for viral internet fame at her expense? Then she can go back and spread some more hate among her little racist group whatever they are and set off some more of them as well. She probably wouldn't be violent herself, but putting more hate out sets off chain reactions. Or, another scenario, what if the filmer instead had seen two people arguing and tried to actually calm the situation rather than throw grease on the fire. Pretty sure its even hard for a racist to call someone names who is being nice, and even harder still for her then to carry a race grudge. If the filmer were white, she also would become more not less hateful and spread more hate into the world. BTW, do you think anyone who witnessed that brave African American serviceman who gave his life to jump in the river and save a drowning immigrant could remain a racist? That is why integration in schools was such a good idea. It is hard to hate anyone who you actually know or know in a positive light.

Oops, I sounded all kinds of woo woo --NOT what I meant!
Read American history -- I am in no way conversant, I read more editorially, like Jill Lepore. The country has been here before and will come out of it -- maybe.

Bene, I appreciate you and your mindset. I strive for what you value.
Sacjon, online time is destructive, even when you think you're doing good. :-)
I wish us all well...

Bene 6:49, I get what you're saying. I've struggled with this. But come out on the side, generally, of exposing nasty people.

Again, I get it. We're past the point of no return. Not sure how it will all come out, but read history, American and otherwise.

We've been at terrible points before. The pendulum is always swinging. I detest where we are at, but may not be alive to see it swing back.

We're just homonoids on this planet. There are powers stronger than us, and a universe bigger than us. Best to all. (Hubris will get us.)

Bene defending racist rants from the well-dressed, white, mentally ill lady - I don't care what kind of day she was having - I don't care that someone was engaging in the constitutionally protected activity of filming in public. You are defending her behavior.

BENE - "attacking and shaming them would have only made them far worse in the future" - where was this woman attacked or shamed? The guy filming kept calm and quiet as he filmed her making threats of violence and racist comments toward him. The employee she was yelling at just stood there calmly absorbing her viciousness. So again, who was attacking her? No one was doing anything other than observing and allowing her to threaten violence and spew racism.

The act of filming a loud and angry argument is not "attacking" or shaming. It's documenting evidence in case something worse happens. Who posts videos of arguments that are quietly resolved without threats of violence or racism? No one, that's who. Similarly, had she not threatened violence and displayed her vile racism, this video never would have been posted.

I hear your argument that she was not racist until she was being filmed but your missing the point that the reason she was being filmed was that she was being entirely disrespectful and acting erratically. Filming her did not make her spontaneously racist. She just put her true colors on grand display.

Embarrassed beyond belief that she would shame herself and everyone who knows and is associated with her so senselessly.
And if I'm being honest, embarrassed that she brought such negative attention to a community of people that I love and am proud of, on the whole. As a community of caring individuals, we can't let her define us.

BENE - You're assuming everything and ignoring actual facts. Another, very important, point you ignored - she mentioned, at least once, that she would have been "violent" (see 1:13 in the video) had the young man not been filming and then told him at the end he "saved [the employee's] life" by being there.

Still think he was in the wrong for documenting this and sharing it?

You say you were mortified..... Meaning humiliated by the experience?

sacjon, your supposition that we do not know if she was being racist before the filming commenced, is one of the most illogical things I have ever heard. Her argument was about a restaurant bill and her argument was with a blonde lady. I think it's clear that her racist remarks were directed at the filmer not the blonde lady. Therefore that clearly proves that the racist remarks only began when he got involved and started filming. Of course that does not excuse the racist remarks. But My original point had nothing to do with her racism, but to do with the general concept of filming people when it's not clear they are committing or will commit a crime. The filmer could not have known she was going to go racist at the point he started filming. You ask how do I know this? My point above and also just watch the video and you'll see that the video begins with her just arguing about a restaurant bill until she gets mad that he's filming her. As for your repeated jabs at me that I would dare feel sorry for a racist, I'm not particularly feeling sorry for her as much as I am standing up for the general concept of not running around filming everything that people do. But now that you mention it, I probably should feel sorry for her because I feel sorry for murderers too. I feel sorry for anybody who has lost their way and is not living according to the highest good of society and their own soul. And in my experience, if you want to change somebody's wrong thinking, kindness works better than self-righteous gloating and scolding.