A Kenyan immigrant living in the United States of America, was subjected to a brutal attack by a Minnesota woman who smashed her face with a beer mug because she was not speaking English.
Instead she was speaking Swahili while eating with her family at Minnesota Apple bee’s Restaurant.
Kenyan immigrant Asma Jama was taken to hospital, where she needed 17 stitches for deep cuts on her nose, eyelid and lips.
The suspect, who has been identified as Jodie Marie Burchard-Risch, took offence at the foreign language, according to authorities.
“I live in America. I can speak English but we prefer to speak our own language,” Jama told WCCO-TV.
“If it bothers you, I’m sorry.”
According to court documents obtained by the Minneapolis Star-Tribune, Burchard-Risch heard Jama speak a language that wasn’t English while eating with her husband.
She then started yelling at the family, even tossing a drink onto Jama and “roundhouse punching” the glass in her face as the restaurant staff tried to escort her out of the establishment.
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