INSTANT KARMA: Driver fired, arrested after hurling racist comments at Arab woman

[L. Coyote]

Watch: Driver fired, arrested after hurling racist comments at Arab woman in Beaverton

Laura Frazier | The Oregonian/OregonLive January 07, 2016

WARNING: VIDEO CONTAINS OFFENSIVE LANGUAGE.

Yet another incident of racism caught on camera is swirling around social medi ... repercussions for the man at the center of it were swift and final: he was fired from his job as a plumber.

Susan Khalaf of Aloha posted a video on Facebook on Tuesday of what appears to be a man clapping his hands and yelling a racist slur at her out the window of his car. The man started yelling vulgar terms at Khalaf in a "classic case of road rage," before she started recording, she said. She then took a video of the man on her phone when the shouting continued at the next red light.

The man, driving a red SUV, is shown yelling several derogatory terms, including one used to describe those who immigrated illegally from Mexico ......

Social media users identified the man ... Joseph Metoxen, a 35-year-old who lives in Aloha .... Metoxen called the sheriff's office Tuesday night because he was worried for his safety after seeing the video gaining traction on Facebook.

Deputies looked into his background ...he was wanted on a municipal warrant for criminal mischief.... was arrested at his home. .....

[Downwinder]

1. Perhaps cameras will create a civil society.

[Enthusiast]

2. They have a long way to go.

[malaise]

4. True but fundamental technologial change leads to change in all spheres

think printing press or trains. We started to write and meet way more.

[Eleanors38]

3. You bring up an important point...

While smart phone cams are a good tool, they can be made even better by approaching them as a self-defense instructor would. Get the record down fast and accurately, make sure the punk sees it. Good practice might dissuade the punk from escalating.