'You're coming here pleading poverty while we're paying taxes!'
That was the rant of a white woman against two foreign students
one of them a Nigerian in hospital waiting room as caught on mobile.
one of them a Nigerian in hospital waiting room as caught on mobile.
A shocking video have emerged of a woman going on a rant to patients in a hospital waiting room. The two-minute clip, filmed on Saturday night at Ipswich Hospital in Suffolk, saw the woman shout abuse at a Nigerian student, 23-year-old Gina Thompson and her 21-year-old Spanish friend.
The woman asked them ‘where do you come from’ before saying: ‘You're coming over here and you're pleading poverty. We are paying taxes you a***holes and we are going down in this crisis.’
The incident took place at 7:30pm in the hospital’s accident and emergency department waiting room, where Gina Thompson had gone with her friend who had sprained her ankle playing sport.
Gina is a film and media student at University Campus Suffolk and has been in the UK for two years, while her friend from Seville, Spain, arrived last September.
The woman shouted in front of about 20 shocked patients and friends or relatives: ‘What has happened to this f*****g country’, before directly abusing Gina who was sitting down.
She asked her ‘Where do you come from?’, to which Miss Thompson replied: ‘What does it matter where I'm from?’
The woman said: ‘We are paying taxes you a***holes and we are going down in this crisis’, before Gina replied: ‘Don't call me an a***hole’.
The woman said: ‘I will, because you're coming over here and you're pleading poverty. I am not well.’
And Gina responded: ‘You won't call me an a***hole. I will not accept that. Don't call me an a***hole. Don't come to my face and insult me. You won't do that. Calling me an a***hole? Are you alright?’
The woman said back: ‘Don't accept it, you fat a***’, before a voice off camera said the police had been called.
The woman was then apprehended by a group of nurses, paramedics and security guards, saying: ‘There's a revolution going on here.’
In a chat with Mail Online after the incident, Gina said ‘I was so embarrassed and I couldn’t do anything because I was stuck in the situation, so we just had to laugh about it. All the attention was on us.
‘She said I've come here to claim poverty. That's not true. I'm an international student and I pay £13,000 a year in tuition fees. My friend is a student here from Spain.’
‘It made me feel low of myself. I had to go back home and question why it was wrong I was here. My friend was surprised. She was scared, she was terrified.
‘She kind of felt unsafe afterwards. She is Spanish and her English is not perfect, but she could sort of understand what the woman was saying. When she got back home, she said: “Are we in trouble?”
‘This woman was a very normal looking woman who you wouldn't think would abuse you. How many people are the same like that? I’m scared.'
A Suffolk Constabulary spokesman told MailOnline: 'We have arrested and charged [her]. She has been charged with assault on a police officer, two counts of racially aggravated assault and two charges of assault. So, five charges altogether.'
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The incident took place at 7:30pm in the hospital’s accident and emergency department waiting room, where Gina Thompson had gone with her friend who had sprained her ankle playing sport.
Gina is a film and media student at University Campus Suffolk and has been in the UK for two years, while her friend from Seville, Spain, arrived last September.
The woman shouted in front of about 20 shocked patients and friends or relatives: ‘What has happened to this f*****g country’, before directly abusing Gina who was sitting down.
She asked her ‘Where do you come from?’, to which Miss Thompson replied: ‘What does it matter where I'm from?’
The woman said: ‘We are paying taxes you a***holes and we are going down in this crisis’, before Gina replied: ‘Don't call me an a***hole’.
The woman said: ‘I will, because you're coming over here and you're pleading poverty. I am not well.’
And Gina responded: ‘You won't call me an a***hole. I will not accept that. Don't call me an a***hole. Don't come to my face and insult me. You won't do that. Calling me an a***hole? Are you alright?’
The woman said back: ‘Don't accept it, you fat a***’, before a voice off camera said the police had been called.
The woman was then apprehended by a group of nurses, paramedics and security guards, saying: ‘There's a revolution going on here.’
In a chat with Mail Online after the incident, Gina said ‘I was so embarrassed and I couldn’t do anything because I was stuck in the situation, so we just had to laugh about it. All the attention was on us.
‘She said I've come here to claim poverty. That's not true. I'm an international student and I pay £13,000 a year in tuition fees. My friend is a student here from Spain.’
‘It made me feel low of myself. I had to go back home and question why it was wrong I was here. My friend was surprised. She was scared, she was terrified.
‘She kind of felt unsafe afterwards. She is Spanish and her English is not perfect, but she could sort of understand what the woman was saying. When she got back home, she said: “Are we in trouble?”
‘This woman was a very normal looking woman who you wouldn't think would abuse you. How many people are the same like that? I’m scared.'
A Suffolk Constabulary spokesman told MailOnline: 'We have arrested and charged [her]. She has been charged with assault on a police officer, two counts of racially aggravated assault and two charges of assault. So, five charges altogether.'
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