In April, a white Minnesota woman went viral after she admitted to spewing racial slurs at a Black child in a park. Now, there’s a wild new update and some folks are saying, “It’s ’bout time.”
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To catch you up, a Black man named Sharmake Omar had confronted the white woman for calling his son the n-word at the Roy Sutherland Playground in Rochester, Minn. In the viral clip, she even appeared to double down using the racist term and was seen flipping off the man who asked her about her actions. After swift backlash, the woman reportedly managed to raise over $800,000 on GiveSendGo, a Christian fundraising platform, just shy of her stated goal of $1 million to help protect her family. The Rochester branch of the NAACP created an online fundraiser of their own to support Omar and his family, though it’s now inactive. It didn’t even raise half the amount of the white woman’s fundraiser, CBS News reported.
Now, months later, there’s a new update.
Minnesota prosecutors said on Tuesday (Aug. 26) the woman will be charged with three counts of misdemeanor disorderly conduct. Per NBC News, each count carries a maximum penalty of three months behind bars and a $1,000 fine.
The criminal complaint revealed the child on the receiving end of the woman’s vitriol was 8 years old. The Somali boy’s father told authorities his son is autistic, according to the outlet, and due to his disability he requires parental supervision because he doesn’t understand social cues. The boy did take an applesauce pouch from someone else’s diaper bag, the complaint said, but the father attempted to retrieve it… but so did the white woman. And that’s when the aftermath was all caught on tape by Omar. The woman confessed to repeatedly calling the child the slur in the clip, “stating that she can call him that ‘if he acts like one,’ ” the complaint said, before snatching the food item back from him.
Mayor Kim Norton said the situation “deeply affected many people, especially our communities of color, and caused real turmoil in our community.” He added, per NBC News, that the city “acknowledges the lasting impact this incident has had, not only on those directly involved and across our community, but also in the broader conversations happening at the state and national level.”
Her arraignment is set for Oct. 29.
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