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trueblue2007

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60. Hope she has to pay a HUGE fine and gets in trouble for HATE CRIME.

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Thu Oct 4, 2018, 05:26 PM

Oct 2018

white woman who was arrested for harassing two Mexican shoppers for speaking Spanish inside a Colorado grocery store has been identified.

Linda Dwire, 64, was booked into Garfield County Jail on Monday night and charged with two counts of bias-motivated harassment after shocking video of the confrontation surfaced.

The footage shows her lecturing Fabiola Velasquez and Isabel Marin in the aisle of a City Market in Rifle after asking if they lived in the US.

She kept berating the pair and insisted they should be speaking English until Kamira Trent rushed to their defense and told the her to stop, or she would call the cops.

'You don't harass people,' Trent can be heard saying. 'Get out of here! Now!'

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Two People Were Being Harassed For Speaking Spanish In A Grocery Store. Then This Woman Stepped In. [View all] demmiblue Oct 2018 OP

Watched the video on Facebook Zing Zing Zingbah Oct 2018 #1

This kind of hateful racist behavior is happening more & more these days, it disgusts me! FM123 Oct 2018 #2

The result of the shitgibbon in the White House licensing it SkipG Oct 2018 #5

Exactly! FM123 Oct 2018 #14

the woman in White .... Linda Dwine was arrested for harrassing the hispanic people !! trueblue2007 Oct 2018 #59

Hope she has to pay a HUGE fine and gets in trouble for HATE CRIME. trueblue2007 Oct 2018 #60

PLEASE, let this shit happen in front of me...PLEASE. nt FromTheAshes Oct 2018 #3

HUGE SURPRISE! She's a .... CurtEastPoint Oct 2018 #4

WHAT?! demmiblue Oct 2018 #7

Love that gif! ProudLib72 Oct 2018 #41

Shocked, just shocked !! Seriously, what are these people going to do when Red Don steps down?! uponit7771 Oct 2018 #18

Sometimes that doesn't matter. Oneironaut Oct 2018 #44

How dare Spanish-speaking people "invade" Colorado SaintLouisBlues Oct 2018 #6

Plus, the women from Mexico were probably had a native background geardaddy Oct 2018 #11

Yes, the vast majority of Mexicans have Native-American ancestry, which is why most Mexicans look SaintLouisBlues Oct 2018 #13

+1, My Mexican friend brought this to my attention. Made me sit and think uponit7771 Oct 2018 #17

And yet Garfield County was completely within Mexico's borders pre 1848 ... aggiesal Oct 2018 #36

Colorado is Spanish for red. IluvPitties Oct 2018 #8

Exactly. deurbano Oct 2018 #37

really sickening bdamomma Oct 2018 #9

Which includes Latinos lunatica Oct 2018 #21

yes that's true bdamomma Oct 2018 #24

That's what being an ally looks like. WhiskeyGrinder Oct 2018 #10

Yep nt Quayblue Oct 2018 #51

That's Just the Thing... SDJay Oct 2018 #12

I was just in Quebec Canada this summer and Barcelona Spain last year ... Snake Plissken Oct 2018 #15

Welsh speakers get this a lot in Wales geardaddy Oct 2018 #16

May those Anti-Welsh people have their TVs stuck forever on S4C... mwooldri Oct 2018 #28

Thank you! geardaddy Oct 2018 #35

Speaking of the Constitution tazkcmo Oct 2018 #43

Spot on taxkcmo geardaddy Oct 2018 #47

I didn't realize Welsh speakers were being harassed in their own country, area51 Oct 2018 #46

Yep, it's been going on forever. n/t geardaddy Oct 2018 #48

My two US citizen daughters always speak German to each other, even when in the USA DFW Oct 2018 #19

Sad truth is this ignorant lady did not know what language they bonniebgood Oct 2018 #23

Exactly! mountain grammy Oct 2018 #27

That's not surprising, unfortunately. N/T DFW Oct 2018 #33

Exactly DFW geardaddy Oct 2018 #49

We need many more vids of people being good allies like this jmbar2 Oct 2018 #20

Well usually the people recording the videos are allies lunatica Oct 2018 #22

My only caution to this would be very careful where you put your hands Grammy23 Oct 2018 #25

I had a friend ask me what he should do if he saw an incident of public racism. Cracklin Charlie Oct 2018 #31

+1.Very good advice. oasis Oct 2018 #34

Not to mention it's "rifle" Colorado. Glad that lady ecstatic Oct 2018 #63

Does Dwire act that way when people speak Russian? muntrv Oct 2018 #26

Made me laugh. -nt CrispyQ Oct 2018 #40

I saw a supermarket checker get busted down to cart guy. Cracklin Charlie Oct 2018 #29

Good on that woman for speaking out about such hatred. IMPEACH_45DJT Oct 2018 #30

welcome to DU gopiscrap Oct 2018 #55

She ran the racist out of the store. Courageous moment. oasis Oct 2018 #32

Trust me lurkers, the good feeling you get from defending 'others' is a lot greater ck4829 Oct 2018 #38

This was righteous! CrispyQ Oct 2018 #39

Rifle. Western slope. Virulently red ProudLib72 Oct 2018 #42

I can't wrap my head around why anyone would get upset over two people talking to each other xor Oct 2018 #45

I like living in a place where I hear languages other than English spoken every day. hunter Oct 2018 #50

And she's been arrested! shanti Oct 2018 #52

That is fantastic news! Thank you for the update, my dear shanti! CaliforniaPeggy Oct 2018 #56

Anytime, Peggy! shanti Oct 2018 #58

"This state wouldn't even be called 'Colorado' if it had any Spanish in it's past!" struggle4progress Oct 2018 #53

thank you thank you LADY IN PURPLE!! The woman wearing white blouse should be ashamed of herself. trueblue2007 Oct 2018 #54

See post #52, my dear trueblue2007! CaliforniaPeggy Oct 2018 #57

Making an ass of herself in the toy department, to boot. KY_EnviroGuy Oct 2018 #61

I grew up in western PA ... left-of-center2012 Oct 2018 #62

My family spoke Lithuanian EVERY-where eleny Oct 2018 #64

Well done Kamira Trent! smirkymonkey Oct 2018 #65

Having problems with the link. RickHworth Oct 2018 #66

"But she assured us that she's not racist" gay texan Oct 2018 #67

I hear people speaking other languages in stores all the time in my neck-of-the-woods Rhiannon12866 Oct 2018 #68

Its a wonderful thing to be able to speak another language onetexan Oct 2018 #69

I don't understand the bigotry towards immigrants, either. Rhiannon12866 Oct 2018 #70