The Mountain View Police Department announced in a press release on Thursday that a woman was arrested on May 28 after she assaulted a Starbucks customer and aimed racist slurs at a store manager.
Daixin Neill Quan, 33, was arrested on misdemeanor battery and hate crime charges.
Officers were dispatched to the San Antonio Road Starbucks. Quan attacked a customer after noticing the customer spoke with an accent, according to discussions with the victim and witnesses.
Quan also confronted a Starbucks manager, telling him to “go back to your country” and threatening to “deport him back to Mexico.” The man was of Indian ancestry, not Mexican.
Quan hit the customer and scratched her neck after she started recording. Customers separated them. Santa Clara County DA Jeff Rosen said she made an attempt to assault a Hispanic child before her father intervened.
“There’s absolutely nothing that anyone did that provoked this woman, nothing provocative that anyone did but order a cup of coffee,” Rosen said.
Quan’s charges were both classified as misdemeanors. She was arrested and held in the Santa Clara County Jail on $10,000 bail.
