A Louisville mall is banning a woman caught on video screaming racist and vulgar insults at another holiday shopper.
The video of the unidentified woman shouting “go back to wherever the (expletive) you come from, lady” in a check-out line at the Jefferson Mall spread quickly on social media Tuesday.
By Wednesday, it had been viewed more than five million times.
The clip was posted on YouTube (warning: possibly offensive content).
The mall issued a statement on its Facebook page saying that it is working to identify the woman and bar her from returning.
A Louisville mall in Kentucky will be banning one customer after she went on a racist rant in #jcpenney store https://t.co/JqShBplR8W pic.twitter.com/m8jeCRYeZv
— WSYX ABC 6 (@wsyx6) December 21, 2016
Kentucky mall bans woman for life after racist spiel against Latinas. https://t.co/xdu5XqsPHl pic.twitter.com/xRhAilNaMp
— teleSUR English (@telesurenglish) December 22, 2016
In the video taken by another shopper, the elderly white woman claims a Hispanic woman cut in line to join another shopper.
The white woman screams at the two women that they’re “nobodies,” ”probably on welfare” and tells them to learn to speak English.
“I said sorry,” one of the women said back to her. “You’re in America,” the woman then yelled. “If you don’t know it, learn it.”
Epoch Times contributed to this report.