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Anti-Immigrant Rant On Train Gets NJ Woman Fired: Reports
"How 'bout you get the (expletive) out of our country," the woman shouted, in a video shared widely on social media.
NORTH JERSEY — After a video surfaced of a New Jersey woman berating a group of German tourists on a New York City-bound train, reports say she has been fired from her job.
The woman, identified as a Mahwah resident, can be seen is seen yelling at tourists on what is apparently an NJ Transit train while her boyfriend pleads with her to stop.
"How 'bout you get the (expletive) out of our country," she eventually shouts at them in the three-minute video, which was shared widely on social media and even picked up by TMZ.
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The video begins with her asking if they are German, demanding, "what did you say, tell me what you said." The tirade against the four men appears to have started because the woman thought one said something to her.
"Stop this or I'm never going to talk to you again," the boyfriend pleads, as she insists on confronting the tourists.
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"I love you, but get off me," she told him.
The tourists stayed seated as she leaned over them and paced around the train, except for a few seconds when one stood up.
"(Expletive) immigrants," she said, as her boyfriend continued to try and talk her out of the rant.
A spokesman from Capital Rx, where she worked as a talent acquisition specialist, confirmed to the New York Post that she was fired, saying the company "has a zero-tolerance policy around prejudicial or discriminatory behavior."
Patch has reached out to NJ Transit for comment.
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