The Yale student, Kathryn Graves, is looking to identify the woman to make sure she’s not the perpetrator or victim of someone else’s ire if she continues ranting at strangers.
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NBC News reports that Graves encountered the woman at 47th and Third Avenue in the midtown section of Manhattan.
The woman started spewing racial slurs at Graves, who recorded the incident.
What a time — it seems Facebook took down my video from yesterday, which is really quite frustrating bc this person…
Posted by Kathryn Graves on Sunday, June 21, 2020
Graves says that she recognizes that the woman may be mentally ill and/or homeless.
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Several incidents have been caught on camera as of late, including from another New York resident, Amy Cooper, who threatened to call the police on an African American bird watcher and another woman who told a Black cyclist in Alameda to go back to Oakland – which has a larger Black population.