Terry Rakowski, 39, thought she was being helpful when she told the woman in the religious head covering and pink burqa that she was using the wrong door to get into Walmart. Instead, the 39-year-old Palm Bay, Fla., resident said the woman looked at her and spit in her face before she turned and rolled her cart into the store to go shopping.
"She just spit all over me. All I was trying to do was tell her she was coming in through the out door. She was just ramming it into the door," said Rakowski, who was with her husband. "She then looked at me and said, 'Yes I did,' then walked off. … This really bothered me last night. You just don't know what she might be capable of."
Now, Nuha Mohammed Al-Doaifi, a Saudi Arabian national, faces the battery charge with a hate crime enhancement, which means that the first-degree misdemeanor battery charge could be elevated to a third-degree felony bringing a chance of greater punishment if convicted, prosecutors said.
"Her actions were directed at random people based on their ethnicity, and that's according to her own statement," said Yvonne Martinez, spokeswoman for the Palm Bay Police Department.
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