Woman accosted, questioned about her immigration status at Cobb County store

ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) – A Cobb County woman was shopping with her family at the City Farmer’s Market in Marietta when she says she was verbally harassed over her immigration status.

Yanirei Sandoval, a U.S. citizen, said it started in the parking lot when she witnessed a woman yelling racial obscenities at a group of customers who were crossing at a crosswalk.

Sandoval said she stepped in to help, telling the woman to calm down, then went inside with her son and mother.

“The other customers that had witnessed everything, they were like, ‘she’s coming, she’s coming. What is wrong with her?’” Sandoval said. “She looked at me and said, ‘You’re a bean burrito-eating Mexican, you’re an illegal.’ And I kept telling her, I’m not Mexican.”

Sandoval, who is of Peruvian background, said that’s when another bystander started filming the encounter. In a video obtained by Telemundo Atlanta, the woman appears to yell at Sandoval and her son, suggesting they and the bulk of the customers in the store are illegal immigrants.

WATCH VIDEO CAPTURED BY BYSTANDER:

ACTUALIZACIÓN: LA MUJER GRITANDO EN EL VIDEO FUE ARRESTADA ANOCHE Y SALIÓ ESTA TARDE LIBRE BAJO FIANZA.

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UN INCIDENTE EN UN CITY FARMERS MARKET DE MARIETTA ESTÁ CAUSANDO POLÉMICA Y CRÍTICAS.
Una testigo compartió el video (está editado pero aun contiene palabras que pueden resultar ofensivas para algunas personas).
Según la testigo una mujer adulta, hispana, se le habría atravesado en el estacionamiento a la persona que le grita a otra mujer que “no se meta en el f****g asunto”.
La otra mujer con el niño al parecer habría intervenido en el ataque verbal.
Entre las palabras que parece utilizar la persona que grita están “la migra, la migra”, porque presuntamente la mujer con el niño le advirtió que llamaría a la policía.
El incidente ocurrió a las 7:20 p.m. del martes, según la testigo, en City Farmers Market ubicado sobre 1167 Powder Springs St., en Marietta.
La mujer gritando es identificada por los records públicos como kaiti Ducrepin Nadege; fue arrestada por la policía de Marietta y fichada a las 9:05 p.m del martes en la cárcel del condado de Cobb. Salió libre este miércoles a las 5:57 p.m. tras depositar una fianza de $4,070 dólares.
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An incident report obtained from Marietta Police indicates the woman in the video is Nadege Ducrepin. Ducrepin is now charged with one count of disorderly conduct and another of making terroristic threats.

“There’s a stereotype that every person that looks Hispanic or Latino is either Mexican, and as if they were just automatically an illegal immigrant,” Sandoval said. “I felt disrespected because just because I look a certain way doesn’t mean that I’m not part of this country. I’m a U.S. citizen. My son is a U.S. citizen.”

The incident left Sandoval and her family upset and shaken. Sandoval said she wants people to act more humanely and stay away from stereotyping. She’s currently going to school for a psychology degree and plans to attend law school to practice immigration law after.

“We have to come together and support one another. It’s not okay to just let people get away with this type of behavior,” she said.

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