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The woman was charged with assault and terroristic threats. The incident is still being investigated by the Plano, Texas Police Department's Crime Against Persons Unit.
Rani Banerjee said she and three of her friends had just finished dinner at Sixty Vines in Plano when a woman confronted them in the parking lot, as seen in a now-viral video.
"Suddenly, we heard this woman yelling at us and started coming toward us. We were shocked by the racial slurs that she used and combative attitude," said Banerjee.
Banerjee started recording the incident with her phone. The woman, who was identified by Plano police as Esmeralda Upton, shouted racial slurs and began hitting Banerjee.
"Go back to India, we don't want you here," Upton could be heard saying on the video.
"What was so very scary is she came very close and not only verbally assaulted us but started physically assaulting us. She started hitting me," said Banerjee.
Upton, who identified herself as Mexican-American, told the group in the video that she "hated Indians."