Wife Of Pennsylvania's Lieutenant Governor Films Woman Berating Her With Racist Slur

Pennsylvania’s second lady said she was left shaking and in tears after being berated by a racist customer at a supermarket this weekend.

Gisele Barreto Fetterman, who is the wife of Lt. Gov. John Fetterman (D), was waiting in the checkout line of an Aldi’s near Braddock, Pennsylvania, on Sunday evening when she says a woman confronted her and began hurling bigoted epithets in her direction.

“She said, ‘There’s that N-word that Fetterman married. You don’t belong here,’” Fetterman told The Washington Post in an interview published Monday. “I was just kind of frozen in that moment. I was shaking. I was so nervous.”

A Brazilian native and former undocumented immigrant who became a U.S. citizen 11 years ago, Fetterman said the verbal assault continued after she exited the store and returned to her car. Using her cellphone, she managed to capture a short video showing the woman calling her by the racial slur, which she then posted to Twitter.

As of Monday afternoon, the clip had been viewed more than 245,000 times.

“This behavior and this hatred is taught,” Fetterman wrote in a second tweet. “If you know her, if she is your neighbor or relative, please, please teach her love instead.”

Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf on Monday condemned the incident as “shameful and unacceptable,” adding, “No one should ever be made to feel unwelcome in our commonwealth because of their race or ethnicity.”

“Gisele Fetterman spends much of her time making our state and world a better place and she — and every Pennsylvanian — deserves our respect, not the hatred too often...

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