Video shows woman’s racist tirade at elderly Filipinos in Vancouver
VANCOUVER, BC — A woman was caught on video hurling a racist diatribe against an elderly Filipino couple on SkyTrain on the Millennium Line heading toward Brentwood Town Centre last Aug. 21.
The woman started cursing and shouting at the couple Monday afternoon because she felt the Filipino couple was talking too loudly, Paula Correa, who recorded the video on her cellphone, told CTV News. According to Correa, the man apologized, and tried to explain that people speak loudly in the Philippines.
The video later posted on Facebook shows the woman yelling, “I was born and raised right here” and “go back to the f—ing Philippines.”
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The couple and the woman started yelling at each other and some passengers joined in.
Correa said at one point the woman told the couple to “learn how to speak English,” even though that’s how they were communicating with her.
“Everything she was saying was ridiculous,” Correa said. “The couple was replying to her perfectly fine.”
Ashley Klassen also recorded the confrontation and posted the video to social media. Her post has been shared thousands of times, generating many angry responses to the outburst, as well as support for the passengers who defended the couple. One teen in particular was praised for telling the woman to get off the SkyTrain and leave the couple alone.
Transit Police said the woman is known to them for anger issues but cannot be prosecuted because saying racist things is not a crime.
