SAN FRANCISCO (KCBS RADIO) – A woman has been charged with a hate crime after hurling racist epithets at people, attacking a woman, and threatening a child inside a Mountain View Starbucks last week, authorities announced on Thursday.
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The incident occurred at 4 p.m. on Saturday, when the woman, 33-year-old Daixin Neill Quan, entered the coffee shop on San Antonio Road and began yelling — without provocation — at the manager, an Indian man, according to a release by the Santa Clara County District Attorney's Office. She allegedly told him "go back to your country" and she would have him "deported back to Mexico."
Quan then heard a 32-year-old hispanic woman inside the store speak with an accent, prompting her to also tell her to "go back to your country." Quan began recording the victim with her phone, and said she would send it to the Army and Border Patrol. The victim attempted to stop her from recording, leading Quan to attack the woman, striking her seven or 10 times, with both hands, using open and closed fist. The victim suffered scratches on her neck, wrist and side of her face.
Patrons at the cafe intervened and pulled Quan away from the victim. She allegedly then told another hispanic family "you don't belong here," and advanced towards their child, as if she was trying to attack them, authorities said. The father stepped in and placed himself between the suspect and his child,
The Santa Clara County District Attorney charged Quan with a misdemeanor hate crime. She faces jail time if convicted.
Quan was scheduled to be arraigned in Palo Alto court at 1:30 p.m. on Thursday.
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