Video shows woman breaking COVID-19 rules, yelling racist insults at CA park worker

A woman who was breaking COVID-19 rules in a San Francisco park hurled racist insults toward a city employee, who filmed the incident and posted it on Facebook. .

Andrés Patino, who was born in Colombia and raised in the U.S., was working with San Francisco Rec and Park Department’s Love Dolores campaign, according to CBS San Francisco. He said he was approached by a woman not wearing a mask at Dolores Park on Sunday. Patino said she was holding scissors and cut down signs restricting the playground from public use.

In the video, Patino is seen backing away from the woman, who then says, “I’m not chasing you, you sheep!”

“Go to the hospital and tell them to put you on a ventilator. They’ll kill you with a ventilator like they’re doing,” she continued.

The woman tells Patino to “go back to wherever the hell you came from and stop trying to steal the property we paid for,” according to the video.

“You’re like spewing this hateful energy. In that moment, it kind of shook me. Because SF is home. ‘Is this actually happening here? Like, do I belong here?’ For a second it brought that questioning,” Patino told CBS San Francisco.

“I want to let her and the other racist Karen’s in SF know that regardless of what they say, this is my home. Your bigotry is neither needed, wanted, or accepted here,” Patrino wrote on Facebook.

“I hope no one else has to be hurt by this person, especially another minority person who may already be struggling and living in fear with the current state of our country,” Patino wrote. “I fear that this woman may continue to harass other people, unless she’s confronted publicly and shamed for it… so just keep your eyes out for her.”

S.F. Rec and Park said in a statement to SFGate that the video is “especially painful” and an investigation is underway.

“Hate simply has no home in Dolores Park or San Francisco,” the statement said. “Our parks must be spaces where we are all equal and equally welcome; places where we can invest in mental and physical health and respect our neighbors’ fundamental instinct to do the same.”

California Gov. Gavin Newsom ordered all Californians to wear face coverings in public in June.