KTTC: Rochester man speaks out after recording racial slurs against child

[Dennis Donovan]

KTTC - Rochester man speaks out after recording racial slurs against child

By Ryder Blair
Published: May. 2, 2025 at 11:43 PM EDT

ROCHESTER, Minn. (KTTC) – The man who recorded a viral video spoke out after reportedly shooting the video in a Rochester park involving racial slurs against a child.

As of Thursday, Rochester police are actively looking into the video shot by Sharmake Omar, which appears to show a woman holding a small child, while making racial slurs in reference to another child at the playground. The woman claimed the child had taken something that belonged to her child.

On Apr. 28 at Roy Sutherland Park, Omar said he noticed a woman yelling racial slurs at a 5-year-old African American special needs boy, and he felt it was only right to defend the child, record the incident on his phone, and post it on social media.

“If it was my child, I would want somebody else to stand up for him,” Omar said.

With a child of his own on the spectrum, Omar said he felt he did what he thought was right.

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Just in case anyone missed the initial, sickening story:

Yahoo - Videotaped woman whose racial slurs against child went viral raises $300k online

Michelle Del Rey
Fri, May 2, 2025 at 8:35 PM EDT



A woman who went viral after she was videotaped in a confrontation for using a racial slur against a child has raised hundreds of thousands of dollars online, which she claimed she now needs to relocate for her family’s safety.

While some may have donated to get her out of the community, others defended her actions in their replies to the fundraiser.

Shiloh Hendrix was videotaped as a man confronted her about using the slur against a child at Soldiers Field Memorial Park in Rochester, Minnesota. She laughed and stuck her tongue at him as she carried her own child on her hip.

Hendrix defended her actions and told the man that the child had stolen her kid’s diaper bag. When told the language she was using was “hate speech,” the woman responded that she didn’t “give a s***.”

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Jesus Christ... rewarded not only for being racist, but also just for being mean to a 5 year old child.

What a deep, dark piece of garbage she is.

[Diamond_Dog]

1. This is what the MAGA movement has enabled and encouraged.

[sop]

2. And what sort of "deep, dark pieces of garbage" give their money to a woman like this?

[OldBaldy1701E]

3. Fellow 'deep, dark pieces of garbage', of course. (n/t)

[WmChris]

4. They walk amongst us

This administration has brought the closet racists out into the open and emboldened them. Scary times for all of us.

[OldBaldy1701E]

6. Not just 'emboldened'.

They have practically been given permission to be racists and fascists.

[Walleye]

5. The woman is very bad, but imagine the lesson she's teaching to this child who's gonna grow up to be an asshole maybe

[IbogaProject]

7. "Stolen"

A five year old picks things up, the notion that that could be theft and not simply playing around is demented.

[iemanja]

8. She's raised a million dollars

on a right-wing version of GoFundMe.
This despite the facts she is currently facing no legal jeopardy. The comments donors left are truly disgusting, most all of them unsurprisingly racist.