The woman caught on camera hurling racial slurs at an animal rights protester at the Cloverdale Rodeo spoke to Global News on Wednesday.
She did not want her face shown on camera today, after she allegedly attacked and spat on the woman at the Rodeo over the weekend.
On Wednesday she said she feels badly about her behaviour, but said the protester started the confrontation.
“When I first saw it, I laughed,” she said, “because I was so embarrassed.”
“I couldn’t believe that someone would post that, going right out of proportion like that, because I could have easily gone to the cops myself and been like ‘she attacked me first and press charges against her,’ but I thought about it and I thought ‘you know what, it was a stupid fight and I’m just going to let it go, whatever.'”
The woman on camera said the confrontation escalated too far, and admits she did make some racist remarks, but she said the protester told her ‘I’m not a Hindu, I’m Muslim, and I’m a terrorist and I’m going to bomb your house,’ and that is when the woman on camera said she lost it.
“You don’t go up to someone and say ‘I’m a terrorist, I’m going to blow up your house,'” she said.
According to her, that is when the video begins, and it ends in a physical confrontation of them fighting each other. She said she has a bruise on her arm and a bruise under her jaw.
“I have no problems with other ethnics or anything,” she said, “but it’s just the fact that she says that she’s a terrorist.”
“I don’t like terrorists.”
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