An Oklahoma man’s vile racist rant towards a 56-year-old woman who he overheard speaking Spanish has been caught on camera.
The unidentified man called Maty Roberts, a US citizen who immigrated from Mexico in the 70s, a ‘f****** wetback’ and ‘lousy speaking immigrant’.
His outburst happened in the Goodwill in Durant, Oklahoma, where the woman was shopping with her daughter and her daughter’s boyfriend.
The man overheard her speaking Spanish on the phone to her sister and approached the daughter’s boyfriend who is white to ask him if he was with the family.
The unidentified Oklahoma man was filmed by Maty Roberts as he called her a ‘f****** wetback’ and ‘immigrant’ at a Goodwill store in Durant
Roberts, who was elsewhere in the store, approached him after receiving a text from her to warn her there was a racist man inside the shop who was harassing her.
She turned her camera on to record their exchange.
‘Excuse me, are you the one that hates wetbacks?’ she can be heard asking.
Furious as he lunges towards her, the man replied: ‘Yeah wetback, wetback, wetback. Cause you’re an immigrant,’ grimacing as he said the last word.
He then impersonated a Mexican immigrant, squealing: ‘No speak English, I no speak English. No comprende,’ then labeled the woman a ‘lousy speaking immigrant.’
Police were called but the man continued his rant as they questioned him.
‘Get that b**** out of here, get that b**** out of here. I’ll show you World War III, it starts right here. Immigrant, immigrant, immigrant. F****** wetback.
Maty Roberts, 56, was shopping when the man began abusing her. She moved to the US from Mexico in 1979 and gained citizenship in 2008
The woman approached him after being warned by her daughter there was a racist man in the store
He cruelly mocked a Mexican person, saying in a high pitched voice: ‘No speak English, no comprende’
The man continued is rant outside in front of a police officer but he was later allowed to go free
Maty was shopping with her daughter Alison and her daughter’s boyfriend Dakota (above) at the time
‘North of the Rio Grande, north of Red River, west of blue, we speak English and English only,’ he fumed.
The man refused to tell the officer his full name, at first joking that it was ‘goofy’ and then referring to himself only as ‘Jack’.
He drove away from the store after complaining that he had high blood pressure.
Roberts, who owns a jewelry store in Durant, said she had never been treated with such disrespect in her life.
‘You only see this on television, that happens somewhere else in a different state, bigger cities. Not here in Durant,’ she told KTLA.
‘I came here legally and I pay my taxes,’ she added.
The incident occurred at the Goodwill store in Durant, Oklahoma, earlier this week