The woman who was caught on camera yelling a racist rant at a wedding photographer and his Indian-American family on a LAX shuttle bus was incited before the riot erupted. He claimed that he was “very excitable” due to brain damage.
The United Airlines passenger who was shot was angered after passenger Pervez Tawfik, who was with his wife and three children on Nov. 24, posted a video online of him hurling a series of insults at the passenger. increased, and broke its silence this week.
she Alleged to Fox 11 Tawfik flatly denied Wednesday night that Tawfik pushed her sideways on the line and called her “white trash” before she had to go back.
“Pushing me aside to get in front of me, the woman made him go back to the back of the line. And he was telling his wife, 'Maybe they're first class, obviously class. “They're white trash, even though they're wearing clothes,” said the woman, whose identity the department has not identified.
In a separate cut of the Fox 11 video interview, the woman claimed that Tawfik was aggressive as they all boarded the shuttle.
“He looked at me and said shut your big mouth, you white trash (expletive),” she said, adding that her husband and Tawfik exchanged words.
Tawfik told the Post that Tawfik told her to “shut up and never speak to my son again,” but only after she told the child to shut up. It is said that He also admitted to having a brief conflict with his husband.
“The rest is a complete and utter fabrication,” he said, emphasizing that the term white trash was not his.
The woman also blamed her actions on past injuries, denied being racist and blamed a series of escalating verbal abuses.
“And most people know me as a very kind and gentle person, but since my brain injury I get easily aroused,” she said.
Tawfik laughed off that excuse, saying, “I think it's possible that brain damage can cause aggression, but I've never heard of that, but I've never heard of brain damage causing racism. No. It’s going to be something new.”
A video Tawfik posted to her more than 145,000 Instagram followers last month showed a woman bringing up her and her family's ethnicity in a viral rant.
In the Nov. 24 recording, the woman says to the man, “Your family is from India, there's no respect, there's no rules. You push everyone away and think it's okay to push and push and push.” spoke. . You guys are really crazy. ”
She also told him, “I'm going to record your tandoori butt,” while pulling out her cell phone.
“I'm so disappointed in her as a human being after seeing everything that happened to her. I feel sorry for how negatively people perceived what she did and didn't even acknowledge her,” Boston-born Tawfik said Wednesday. he added.
United Airlines told the Post on Monday that it had no additional information to share about the incident.
