A woman’s face was smashed with a beer mug just because she wasn’t speaking English. The attack is one of the latest racially incidents to occur.
Last week on Friday, Asma Mohamed Jama was with her husband and friends, when Jama, who immigrated from Kenya, started to speak Swahili. Sitting within an earshot were Jama’s attacker 43-year-old Jodie Burchard-Risch and her husband. According to the Minneapolis Star Tribune, Burchard-Risch became upset and started yelling at Jama, for not speaking American” as Jama’s friend said. Applebee’s managers tried to escort Burchard-Risch out, but the Star Tribune said she took a drink and threw it on Jama before doing a “roundhouse punch motion” and smashing the beer mug on Jama’s face.
The couple tried to get away but an Applebee’s manager followed them and got her arrested.
The women was left with a busted lip and 17 stitches on her face. She spoke to a CBS affiliate in Minneapolis and said, “I live in America. I can speak English but we prefer to speak our own language if it bothers you I’m sorry.” A friend of Jama’s has already set up a GoFundMe to help with her medical expenses, raising almost $7,500.
Via Complex