A video from Andy’s restaurant in Lovettsville, Virginia, is drawing outrage online. It shows a woman confronting a family for speaking Spanish and demanding to see their passports. Social media has dubbed her “Meddling Madeline,” though her identity has not been confirmed in the reports we reviewed.
According to BuzzFeed News, the confrontation happened on October 17 and involved a family that included a woman and her 7 year old child. A Guatemalan woman recorded part of it, and the video was shared with Telemundo 44. In the clip, the woman uses obscenities, tells the family to go back to their country and accuses them of freeloading in America. She can be heard saying, “Show me your passports,” and BuzzFeed reports she continued outside the restaurant.
The Loudoun County Sheriff’s Office told BuzzFeed that deputies responded to a report of a woman confronting customers. Spokesperson Kraig Troxell said the manager asked her to leave and she did so without further incident. No arrests were made, and no charges were reported.
Andy’s condemned her behavior in a Facebook post and said she is not welcome back. We did not find a public response from the woman in the reports we reviewed.
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Fyi, Madeline has been deported to Sweden.