Racist Rant Suspect In Hatboro Faces Court Hearing Friday

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HATBORO, PA —After three scheduling changes, a pre-trial conference has been slated for the Hatboro woman charged with making a racist rant against a borough business.

Rita Bellew, 55, of Hatboro, is awaiting a trial date after her formal arraignment in the Montgomery Court of Common Pleas in early June, her court docket states.

The Montgomery County Court has scheduled Bellew for a pre-trial conference before Judge Risa Vetri Ferman at 9 a.m. on Friday.

Bellew is charged with ethnic intimidation and harassment.

In the expletive-filled viral video, Bellew confronts a counter employee at Amy's Family Pizzeria over a Spanish-language channel being on in the eatery. She demands a refund and then threatens to "look up" the employee and "get them out of town."

Amy's Family Pizzeria captured the rant on a TikTok video. Watch the video here.

"Give me my money back. I’m not giving my money to some illegal immigrant,” she said on the video.

Borough officials said in June that the rant drew interest from a producer who made a public records request seeking information for an upcoming A & E network program.

It was later featured on the A & E Network, which aired a three-minute segment about the rant on Episode 98 of its "Customer Wars" program on July 18.

The show features segments for viewers to "see what happens when customers help themselves to anything they want."