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Woman Yells Obscenities at Guatemalan Family Speaking Spanish

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LOVETTSVILLE, Va. (AP) - A woman has been captured on video yelling obscenities and "Show me your passports" to a family speaking Spanish at a Virginia restaurant.

The Washington Post reports that the incident happened on Oct. 17 at Andy's, a restaurant in the small northern Virginia town of Lovettsville.

The woman, who is white, can be heard saying, "Go back to your (expletive) country," and "Don't freeload on America."

A Loudoun County Sheriff's Office spokesman said the woman left at the request of the restaurant manager. He said no charges are pending.

The restaurant posted a response on Facebook, sarcastically thanking the woman for "never returning to Andy's." The post also said: "You are not welcome."

The video was recorded by a Guatemalan woman who shared it with Telemundo 44 in Washington, D.C.

Don Rush is the News Director and Senior Producer of News and Public Affairs at Delmarva Public Media. An award-winning journalist, Don reports major local issues of the day, from sea level rise, to urban development, to the changing demographics of Delmarva.