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[RustyNails]

Applebee's attack could merit more charges, prosecutor says

Burchard-Risch and her husband were at the restaurant Oct. 30 when they got upset over hearing someone speaking a foreign language in the next booth, according to the criminal complaint. Restaurant managers tried to get Burchard-Risch to leave, but she refused and instead yelled and threw her drink at the woman speaking the foreign tongue.

"Defendant then smashed her beer mug across (the woman's) face in a 'round house punch' motion and fled," an investigator wrote in the complaint.

One of the restaurant managers followed Burchard-Risch until she was arrested by Coon Rapids police.

The woman who was struck had deep cuts on her nose, eyebrow and lower lip, according to responding officers.

CAIR-MN said in its statement that the woman, identified as "Asma" on the GoFundMe page, grew up in Kenya and was speaking Swahili before she was assaulted.

What's more depressing is this quote from the victim

In the MPR interview, Jama said that she told Burchard-Risch before she was hit: "I'm home. I can speak English, but we choose to speak whatever language we want."

She also told MPR that she's traumatized by the Applebee's incident.

"I'm actually thinking about moving out of Minnesota," she said. "I'm scared for my life. I don't feel comfortable here anymore."

Slightly NSFW image of her right after the assault

 

[Volimar]

A racist in Coon Rapids?


Damn that lip though. Poor woman.

 

[Slayven]

Yep the thug looked like someone that would say "This is America, speak American"

Could merit charges?

 

[RustyNails]

Could merit charges?

Could merit MORE charges, such as hate crime.

 

[Straight Edge]

Awful. This woman has a beautiful face.

 

[Grizzlyjin]

I have a feeling attacks like this are going to be more common going into 2016. Politicized xenophobia gets all the wrong people acting their frustrations out through violence.

 

[Angelus Errare]

The jail...under it she should be thrown.

 

[Volimar]

I know it's not the point of this at all, but how shit is it that a victim of a violent crime has to set up a gofundme to pay their medical bills. True universal healthcare can't come soon enough.

 

[NoblesseOblige]

I don't understand what drives a person to attack another because they were speaking another language. Like I know it's racism, or some other form of prejudice, but I don't understand what causes a person to be that hateful.

 

[Bronx-Man]

I can't imagine how some people grow into awful human beings. Like, what possesses someone to be this monstrous?

 

[HORRORSHØW]

damn that's brutal

what the fuck is wrong people

 

[Razmos]

The culprit looks exactly as I'd expect her to look.

 

[BriGuy]

Truly awful stuff. Having some racist smash a glass across your face couldn't have been pleasant either.

 

[akira28]

dust off those hate crime charges.

getting glassed because someone doesn't like even hearing a different language in their presence. privilege is on fire.

 

[Shadybiz]

What a piece of shit.

 

[Straight Edge]

Hopefully she can sue the Applebee's and the attacker.

 

[Mortemis]

I have a feeling attacks like this are going to be more common going into 2016. Politicized xenophobia gets all the wrong people acting their frustrations out through violence.

As trump says, they're just passionate. /s

What a piece of shit of a person.

 

[Slayven]

Could merit MORE charges, such as hate crime.

Damn my reading skills

I have a feeling attacks like this are going to be more common going into 2016. Politicized xenophobia gets all the wrong people acting their frustrations out through violence.

Yep, people think Trump and the GOP are cute. But in reality it stirs up half wits, and numb skulls like this.

 

[Pai Pai Master]

43 years old and this is how you act in a public space because someone is speaking another language. What the fuck even is your life about? This cunt deserves the harshest possible penalties. Absolutely a hate crime.

 

[Orayn]

Not too proud of my state right now, horrible.

 

[Link]

I have a feeling attacks like this are going to be more common going into 2016. Politicized xenophobia gets all the wrong people acting their frustrations out through violence.

Yep. This is what constant fearmongering gets you.

 

[Ricitor]

Good god... She did fucking nothing and gets hit?
I really wonder at times how people like the attacker rationalize shit like this. In what fucking way do you come to the conclusion to strike a person with a beer mug for speaking a different language?

 

[yarden24]

Hopefully she can sue the Applebee's and the attacker.

Why should she sue Apple bee's?

 

[Anion]

I have a feeling attacks like this are going to be more common going into 2016. Politicized xenophobia gets all the wrong people acting their frustrations out through violence.

Thanks to a certain select group. More desperate they are, the more they might rile up people :/

 

[InsanerBrainer]

This bitch deserves no sympathy and every charge against her. Fuck racist cunts like her.

 

[Ayato Kanzaki]

Hopefully she can sue the Applebee's and the attacker.

Why do you want her to sue Applebee's? From the article, they had a normal reaction to the incident, asking the racist woman to leave before she turned violent, then following her to help in her arrest.

I hope she rot in jail for a decade or so. The victim could easily have lost an eye, and the lip injury is already awful.

Good god... She did fucking nothing and gets hit?
I really wonder at times how people like the attacker rationalize shit like this. In what fucking way do you come to the conclusion to strike a person with a beer mug for speaking a different language?

My guess is that the racist, after realizing she had no support from the managers and other customers, suddenly felt very humiliated, and turned it into resentment toward her target, then tried to get "revenge".

 

[Admiral Woofington]

Is this literally a fucking case of "you speak different I hate you?"


fuck. me.

 

[Tagyhag]

I don't understand what drives a person to attack another because they were speaking another language. Like I know it's racism, or some other form of prejudice, but I don't understand what causes a person to be that hateful.

It could be tons of different reasons. Their upbringing, their family/friends, religious brainwashing, media propaganda, political propaganda etc.

Or they're just plain evil.

 

[Jenov]

Oh my god, that woman is a piece of shit. She deserves to be ejected from the country. At least I hope she serves a good amount of time in jail.

Her picture.

 

[Divvy]

Coon Rapids

really?

 

[victreeb3l]

Damn man. Those injuries look horrible. I hope she sues the shit out of the other woman.

 

[twobear]

send her to tanzania tbh

 

[KodaRuss]

So Racism is a problem in all of the US right Gaf? Not just the South?

What an awful person to do something like this.

 

[TheOGB]

Not too proud of my state right now, horrible.

Same. What the actual fuck.

 

[spazchicken]

Oh my god, that woman is a piece of shit. She deserves to be ejected from the country. At least I hope she serves a good amount of time in jail.

Her picture.

She has a really good "I'm a victim, why is this happening to me" look on her face.

Poor woman... Who's going to start the gofundme?

 

[HK-47]

She has a really good "I'm a victim, why is this happening to me" look on her face.

Its them PCs and Obama and the libural media thats to blame for all the A Rabs speaking in tongues, casting they terrorist spells on folk.

 

[RustyNails]

She has a really good "I'm a victim, why is this happening to me" look on her face.

More like "I thought this was America"

 

[daviyoung]

Fast food restaurants are America's public transport

 

[Damaniel]

Thank you, Donald Trump, for stirring up the xenophobia pot.

 

[janoDX]

She deserves jail, and for a long time.

 

[Slayven]

Fast food restaurants are America's public transport

ain't nothing fast about Applebees.

 

[LiK]

Oh my god, that woman is a piece of shit. She deserves to be ejected from the country. At least I hope she serves a good amount of time in jail.

Her picture.

what a dipshit. def a hate crime.

 

[ItIsOkBro]

When hearing another language sets you off you don't belong in society.

 

[shira]

Oh my god, that woman is a piece of shit. She deserves to be ejected from the country. At least I hope she serves a good amount of time in jail.

Her picture.

Send her to England, where she will only have English speakers

 

[Gordon Shumway]

Fucking racist..geezuz, those pictures aren't easy to look at. Good luck to her her. Sue the stupid out of that animal..

 

[George Oscar Bluth II]

Is it uncommon for people to speak languages other than English in the US? Here in the UK you hear other languages all the time and no one cares.

 

[iNvid02]

Oh my god, that woman is a piece of shit. She deserves to be ejected from the country. At least I hope she serves a good amount of time in jail.

Her picture.

"i smashed her on the account that they wasn't speaking american, last time i checked this here is america and you speak american"


uggh, revolting in every sense

 

[LiK]

Is it uncommon for people to speak languages other than English in the US? Here in the UK you hear other languages all the time and no one cares.

it's extremely common especially on the coasts. that woman is just a racist.

 

[| Praxis |]

"I've made a huge mistake"

 

[braves01]

Honestly I'm kinda surprised there aren't more of these incidents in MN given the proliferation of immigrants and how conservative the state can be even in the suburbs.