Woman racially abuses Telstra Miranda employees
Horrified onlookers have captured a woman screaming racist abuse at three retail workers at a suburban Sydney shopping centre, telling one man to “go home to China”. SEE THE VIDEO HERE.
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An irate woman has screamed “go home to China” at a retail worker at a suburban Sydney shopping centre in a shocking racially abusive attack.
Horrified onlookers filmed as a brunette woman shouted abuse in the faces of three Telstra store employees at Westfield Miranda on Thursday.
The three men of Asian and Indian appearance were providing customer service at the store entrance on the centre’s ground floor when the attack occurred.
“Oh really? Go back to China,” the woman is heard aggressively saying only inches from one employee’s face.
“Do you understand that? My family’s going to make sure this shop’s shut down immediately.”
As the woman stormed away the footage depicts her turning back and pointing furiously at another man standing outside the store.
“And you are too, India,” the woman shouts.
Telstra is among the only stores still open alongside supermarkets and food retail businesses at Westfield Miranda due to government restrictions on non-essential business and enforced social distancing during the coronavirus pandemic.
The Australian Human Rights Commission Commissioner’s race discrimination commissioner Chin Tan said on Wednesday the commission had received increased reports of anti-Asian racism as the coronavirus pandemic, which originated in the Chinese city of Wuhan, grips the nation.
“It’s an alarming trend that deeply affects individuals and undermines the community’s ability to respond effectively to the pandemic,” Mr Tan said.
“More recently, frustration at the disruption, confinement and hardship so many people are facing has led to even more aggressive forms of racism – people of Asian and other diverse backgrounds have been targeted with vitriolic and sometimes violent or other criminal forms of abuse.”
The AHRC is collecting data on incidents of racism in relation to COVID-19 and has invited academics, stakeholders and police to help gather information.
NSW Police, Telstra and Westfield have been contacted for comment.