Kimmy Yam is a reporter for NBC Asian America.
A woman in Plano, Texas, has been convicted of hate crime charges in connection to a 2022 incident in which several Asian American women were physically and verbally attacked. Esmeralda Upton, 59, was convicted on Friday of three misdemeanor assault charges and one misdemeanor charge of terroristic threat, the Collin County District Attorney announced.
At one point, when one of the victims described Upton as white, she said she is Mexican American. “I was born here,” Upton says in the video. At an earlier point, Upton tells the women, “We don’t want you here.” “If things were so great in your country then stay there,” Upton says in the video, captured by one of the victims. Upton appears to walk away at another point, but returns and begins to lunge at the victims, visibly knocking the phone that’s recording the video.
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