Plano Police Arrest Woman After Video Emerges of Her Hitting and Threatening to Shoot Four Women during Racist Rant
Plano Police confirmed the arrest of Esmeralda Upton of Plano on Thursday. She faces two misdemeanor charges of assault causing bodily injury and terroristic threats, according to aUpton's behavior is also being investigated by the Plano PD's Crime Against Persons Unit"as a hate crime" that could bring additional charges. She's sitting in a Plano jail cell on a $10,000 bond, according to the statement.
Upton approached four women in the middle of a personal conversation in the parking lot of the Sixty Vines restaurant on Dallas Parkway in West Plano sometime before 8:15 p.m. on Wednesday, according to Plano PD records. "Oh, these fucking Indians," Upton says."They come to America because they want a better life, but they're obviously not living a great life in India."
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