Women whose racist pizza shop rant went viral says she is ‘profoundly sorry’ after charges are announced

Philadelphia Inquirer ^ | 3/3/2023 | Steven M. Falk

[Sir_Humphrey]

The woman (Rita Bellew) whose racist rant in a Montgomery County pizza shop went viral was charged with ethnic intimidation and harassment Friday, according to the Hatboro Police Department......Bellew’s case is being prosecuted in Montgomery County by Assistant District Attorney Tanner Beck, per the release from Hatboro police.

[Sir_Humphrey]

Very scary times are ahead of us. Speak out against anything the government supports and the government will charge you. It's not "paranoid" anymore to think that jail time for offering your opinion is in the near future.

Didn't we fight a revolution in the 1700s over things like this?

[ronnie raygun]

Canada is doing it already

[A_perfect_lady]

I mean, I disapprove of her behavior, but we’re getting to where a white person can get in more legal trouble for voicing a bigoted viewpoint than a person of color will get into for physical assault on a white person.

[lightman]

Pennsylvania Ping!

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[lightman]

There are a least seven tiers to our injustice non-system:

1) Foreign invaders aka migrants
2) Democrats
3) LGBTZRSTUVWXYZ+ regardless of party
4) “People of Color” regardless of party
5) Muslims
6) Republicans in general
7) White, Christian, straight men

[blackdog]

Being an a$$hole isn’t a crime. It usually gets you a bitch slapping from neighbors, family, or peers. This woman is a real jerk. To me it seems like she took an Ambien and had a few glasses of wine.

[A_perfect_lady]

I’m surprised Muslims have slipped down the rank. They probably need to blow up some more buildings, because 15 years ago they could beat a gay person to death and “it’s their culture, you have to respect it.”

[CIB-173RDABN]

The first amendment is there to protect speech we do not like. I do not see how this law is Constitutional.

https://mtsu.edu/first-amendment/article/189/brandenburg-v-ohio

[Ge0ffrey]

Ethnic intimidation and harrassment? Flee Philadelphia. Run for your lives.

[lightman]

Hatboro is in the blue Phillyburbs.

Bidenistan.

[joe fonebone]

I sure am glad they got this white lady for free speech...
Now, how many child molesters did they arrest this week???

[Fzob]

Welcome to the new American where;

The thought police would get him just the same. He had committed – would have committed, even if he had never set pen to paper – the essential crime that contained all others in itself. Thoughtcrime, they called it. Thoughtcrime was not a thing that could be concealed forever. You might dodge successfully for a while, even for years, but sooner or later they were bound to get you.

– George Orwell

[ConservativeInPA]

Seems like she was having a bad day, but her behavior is uncalled for. I get where’s she’s coming from. A more appropriate behavior would be not to do business with the Spanish pizza guy. The worst element is government getting involved and controlling speech thru force. There are people that feel the pressure of government and react opposite to it, e.g., tell me I can’t do something and I’ll do it. I’m not talking about real crime like theft, but thought crimes. Speech is enunciated thought.

[MeneMeneTekelUpharsin]

It’s all one way. This should apply to EVERYONE, not just her.

[Eagles6]

Yep.

[Tired of Taxes]

Watching the video now... This woman behaved like a complete idiot.

And what she’s doing is harassment: https://twitter.com/ChudsOfTikTok/status/1629245501538451456

Our 1st Amendment right does not mean we have the right to harass and yell profanities at people for no reason.

If you don’t like Spanish TV in a restaurant, don’t go to that restaurant.

[V_TWIN]

“‘profoundly sorry’ after charges are announced”

I bet......NOW 😏

[LouAvul]

Screw that. I’m sick of these dirtbags flooding into my state. They’re destroying every red state they touch. Make them stay in the cesspool they create.

[wildcard_redneck]

"It’s all one way. This should apply to EVERYONE, not just her."

I see you don't have a problem with speech and thought control as long as it applied equally. I have news for you. These kind of laws are never replied equally and never will be and that you are a fool to think so.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Your post is correct. Her one best defense is the 1st amendment. If this woman is charged, prosecuted and sentenced for this behavior, we are all so screwed.