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Woman Yells Obscenities at Guatemalan Family Speaking Spanish

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.

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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.