스카이트레인에서 70대 여성 인종차별 욕설

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이지연 기자 입력17-08-23 19:35 수정 17-08-24 14:54  

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동영상을 올린 파울라 코리아의 페이스북 캡쳐 사진. 빨간색 스트립 셔츠를 입은 여성이 인종차별적 욕을 한 인물.

대중교통경찰(Transit Police)이 스카이트레인에서 인종차별적 욕설을 한 여성을 조사 중이다. 

사건은 21일(월) 오후 2시 경, 버나비 구간을 지나고 있던 밀레니엄 라인 열차 안에서 발생했다. 75세 여성이 그보다 나이가 많은 아시안 노년층 부부에게 인종차별적 표현을 포함한 심한 욕설을 퍼부었다.

이 사건은 당시 상황을 찍어 SNS에 올리면서 알려지게 됐다.

영상을 보면, 75세 여성은 노부부를 향해 "난 여기서 태어나서 여기서 자랐다."며 쌍욕을 섞어 필리핀으로 돌아가라고 고함을 질렀다.

당시 같이 스카이트레인을 타고 있던 승객이 경찰에게 몰래 신고할 수 있는 노란응급호출선을 눌렀고, 신고가 접수된 경찰들은 스카이트레인은 브렌우드몰 역에 정차한 스카이트레인에 올랐다. 

           

하지만 이미 인종차별적 욕설을 한 여성은 하차하고 없어진 뒤였다.

경찰은 영상을 통해 인종차별적인 욕설을 한 여성의 용모와 홀덤 스테이션(Holdom Stn.)에서 하차한 정황 등을 바탕으로 용의자의 신원을 확인했다. 그리고 "뉴 웨스트민스터에 거주하는 여성으로, 과거에도 분노조절장애로 인해 경찰 조사를 받았던 인물"이라고 밝혔다. 

경찰은 욕설을 한 여성을 찾아내 주의를 줬다. 하지만 물리적인 폭력을 행사하지 않았다는 이유로 공공 안전을 위협하는 인물은 아니라며 대중교통경찰은 체포나 기소를 하지 않은 것으로 알려졌다. 단지 또 그런 행동을 할 경우에는 처벌을 받는다는 경고를 줬다고 대중교통경찰은 밝혔다.

이번 사건 동영상(https://www.facebook.com/siopaolaa/videos/10159465730595647)은 23일(수) 오후 기준으로 17만 2천 차례 접속되었다. 

대중교통경찰은 만약 대중교통시설에서 불편하거나 위험한 상황이 발생하면 대중교통경찰 휴대폰 문자 신고번호인 877777번으로 신고해 줄 것을 알렸다.

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Paula Correa님은 슬퍼요

· 8월 22일 오전 1:07 ·

Here's my angle of a sad incident on the Millenium line today. Racism and hate crime right here in Vancouver, the very city we call home.

Another angle is here: https://www.facebook.com/ashley.christine.3551/posts/2176143215945594

This Caucasian woman was originally sitting in the empty seat you see in front of me and moved to a seat in front of an elderly Filipino couple who were talking to each other. After a minute or so she turned around and told them to quiet down, not nicely, calmly, or politely, but rather immediately snapped at them instead. The husband confronted her and their already heated conversation escalated when when she started yelling at the couple to "Shut up" and threatened to "call the police" on them (for talking??). She then threatened to get up and get off at the next stop and report the couple but didn't end up doing so because once she stood up is when she began her slew of racial slurs.

Before the video starts is where she started calling the man "A stupid fucking Filipino" and that "[They] should learn to speak English" if they "decide to live in this country". Then she started saying the things you see in this video where she tells them to "go back to the fucking Philippines".

As you'll see in the other video, she also mocks the elderly couple with a high-pitch, mocking voice, claiming that they said that "this is how we talk in our country".

After she got off at Holdom (where you see in the other video), she came back in, mockingly got close to the elderly man's face and said "Bye fuckhead" and yelled "Fuck you" towards the couple before leaving the train again.

I thought I had lost all hope for our city when this situation first began but once multiple people started defending the elderly couple, I knew that Vancouver was one to stand up against hate.

The gentlemen that you hear in the video (one you'll see in the other angle) were defending the couple from this woman's attacks. One man behind me (that you hear at the beginning of my video) called her out for being "racist" and she denied it by saying "I'm not racist". While the other man (seen in the other video) defends them as well, but also gets attacked by this woman.

After the woman left, three individuals, including myself, the man in the burgundy shirt and sunglasses that you see by the doors, and the woman in the white shirt and sunglasses in front of me, all apologized to the elderly couple. We three wished them a good rest of their day.

At Brentwood station, where I got off, Translink police arrived and boarded the train (perhaps someone called or pressed the silent alarm?). There I also heard another witness report to the Translink workers that there had just been a woman aboard the train who "was swearing loudly".

Throughout the entirety of the incident, the elderly Filipino man was defending himself and his wife from the woman's attacks, while the elderly Filipino woman was trying to calm her husband down, telling him, in Tagalog, to let it be as she was "already old". At one point they both looked to me for support and I told them, in Tagalog, not to worry. When I got off, I gave them both a "mano" and wished them a better rest of their day.

Recently, our world has been no stranger to hate crimes. Situations like these, brought forth by ignorant and hateful people, only contribute to what has been happening. Though social media provides an illusion that these hate crimes happen in distant places, this afternoon was proof that it can happen anywhere, even in the city we call our home.

Thank you, Vancouverites, for standing up against hate. Let's show the world that our city does not and will not tolerate this.

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