Sakshi Venkatraman is a reporter for NBC Asian America.
An Indian American family who was verbally attacked with a racist rant on a United Airlines shuttle bus is planning to press charges against the woman who called them “not American.” Pervez Taufiq, 50, was traveling from Mexico to Los Angeles with his wife and three young children when he says a woman accosted him — first telling his kids to “shut up” and then, when he pushed back, hurling racial slurs at them. Taufiq’s recording of the Nov.
He plans to start the process of pressing charges because he wants to make it clear that her behavior was not OK, he said. It’s not clear whether the police will charge the woman with a crime. Taufiq said the harassment began on the flight from Mexico, when she approached his 11-year-old son, who was sitting apart from the family, and questioned him about his race.
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