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A black driver who was pulled over in Los Angeles County for using a cell phone while driving went on a racist tirade against a Hispanic sheriff's deputy, calling him a 'murderer' and telling him he'll 'always be a Mexican' and he'll 'never be white.'
The body cam video of the April 23 incident in San Dimas surfaced on Monday. The clip was first obtained by Fox News.
‘Can you tell me why I’m being harassed today? Because I was going under the speed limit.’
‘The speed limit is 40 and I was going 38, so why are you harassing me?’ the woman asks the sheriff’s deputy.
‘You’re correct,’ the deputy responds. ‘I pulled you over because…’
The woman responds: ‘I was recording you because you scared me.’
‘You can’t use your cell phone while you’re driving,’ the deputy says in response.
‘I can record you,’ the woman replies.
After the deputy asks to see the woman’s driver’s license, she replies: ‘It’s at my apartment.’
‘I mistakenly left it at home,’ she adds.
The deputy then asks to see a picture of the driver’s license.
The woman says that she has a photo of her license. She then asks the deputy to ‘call your supervisor.’
‘I already did,’ the deputy says. ‘He’s on his way.’
‘Good,’ the woman replies, ‘because you’re a murderer.’
The woman then complains again about being pulled over.
‘So you’re giving me a cell phone ticket? Is that why you’re harassing me?’ she says.
To which the deputy responds: ‘This isn’t about harassment. I am enforcing the law.’
‘I have a right to record the police when they’re harassing me,’ the woman says.
‘By all means,’ the deputy replies. ‘But you can’t do it while you’re driving.’
The woman then says: ‘I wasn’t texting or none of that.’
'You scared me and made me think you were going to murder me,' the woman says.
'Ok, well, I’m sorry you feel that way,' he replies.
'Well that’s not just a feeling. You’re a murderer.'
To which the deputy replies: 'Ok.'
The woman then displays a photo of her driver’s license on her cell phone.
The deputy then asks her to zoom in on the image.
‘Sure,’ she replies. ‘And I am perfectly legal. And I’m a teacher. So there.’
The deputy then responds: ‘Congratulations.’
Moments later, the woman says: ‘You’re a murderer.’
The deputy then asks the woman to state her last name because he is unable to see it on the screen.
The woman then zooms in further on the photo of the license.
‘Here you go, murderer,’ she says.
The deputy, apparently still unable to see the name, asks the woman to zoom in a bit further.
‘No, because you’re scaring me,’ she says.
‘You’re threatening to kill me and my son.’
When the deputy asks the woman if the Mercedes-Benz she’s driving belongs to her, she replies: ‘Yes, it is. Are you trying to say I stole my own car because you’re jealous?’
‘Is that what that’s about?’ the woman asks.
When another deputy comes over and tells the woman that she’s being cited for using her cell phone while driving, the woman calls the first deputy a ‘Mexican racist.’
‘Sign the citation, ma’am,’ the deputy tells the woman.
The woman then repeats her earlier slur, calling the deputy a ‘Mexican racist.’
‘You’re always going to be a Mexican,’ she says. ‘You’re never going to be white. You know that, right?’
She adds: ‘You’ll never be white, which is what you really want to be.’
‘Have a good day,’ the deputy tells the woman.
The video ends with the woman saying: ‘You want to be white so badly.’