An Edmonton woman filmed in a viral racist rant has been charged with
causing a disturbance, but she says she's not sorry. You're
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at this point. Angelique Barfield has been in an ongoing parking dispute for
weeks with Raul Kumar. It came to a head in August when Kumar
noticed a car parked in the emergency lane. He asked Barfield to move her car
and said he had to do this numerous times in the past. That's when she
started screaming racial epithets and he began filming.
Takes a
real brazen kind of person to wait until the phone comes out and then start
doing a really racist mimicry of his accent. You could tell from the way she's
talking that this isn't their first encounter. And she described prior events
in defending herself to the news. She said: "It's not even the whole story. It's
the end of something that happened three weeks ago [in] which... my friend who lives
there had to call the police on that person." She says in one incident, Kumar
pulled his vehicle up to hers and turned on his brights.
Yeah, but anything that happened in the past kind of goes out the window when
you start being a loud racist on camera.
Oh, and then Kumar's kids come outside and she keeps
going.
Yeah, she imitates his voice, says he has
shit colored skin, tells him to go back to his country, but didn't you know it?
She's not a racist. That's what she told CTV News when she called to complain to
them about their coverage of the video. Boy, you guys just put anything on there, ay?
So we called back. Is this Angelique? Yes. Angelique says what the video doesn't
show is the rest of the dispute. She claims Kumar was verbally aggressive to
her first in the disagreement about parking at this apartment complex. All
this was created by him. Does that justify the racist language you used? I
guess that's a, that's an opinion. It doesn't matter if it justifies it or not. It
happened, and that's where I took it. Yeah, she called up the new station to say
fake news and he started it. She told CTV: "I have no problem with what happened. I'm
sorry you guys have a problem with it." Well, yeah. Racists don't usually have a
problem that they're being racist. The whole point is that other people have a
big problem with it. So there are a couple of things about this racist rant
that make it a little different from the tirades we normally cover, of which there
are many. First off, this is in Canada, which makes me feel a lot better as an
American. Here I was going around thinking that a white person spewing
racist vitriol at any iPhone they see was strictly a domestic problem. It's
good to know our neighbors north of the border aren't perfect.
Another thing that's different here is that Barfield has kind of thrown askew
the whole shame/apology cycle. Mostly because she's not apologizing! Lady, how
can we appropriately shame you if you feel no shame? Hell,
even Aaron Schlossberg apologized! You remember Aaron Schlossberg, right?
Roll the clip, Mitch. You got it buddy. Roll the clip, Mitch. Okay. Roll the... I'm trying.
Roll the clip, Mitch. Trying! Let me, let me do it.
So Angelique Barfield isn't going
on an apology tour, but she has been slapped with charges for causing a
disturbance and mischief for that moment at the end of the ramp when she spits on
his car. What do you guys think? Will not apologizing at all work out in her favor?
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