Rochester racial slur video incident

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In early May 2025, a confrontation between a white woman named Shiloh Hendrix and a black man named Sharmake Omar propagated online after she allegedly called an eight-year-old black child a racial slur at a public playground in Rochester, Minnesota after the child allegedly stole from her own child's diaper bag. Over the course of the recorded confrontation, the woman repeated the slur several times at the behest of the man recording. Hendrix set up a fundraiser after she received threats and her address was doxxed. The fundraiser generated controversy as monetizing hate speech. Many of the donations were accompanied by comments expressing alt-right and racist sympathies, including references to Holocaust denial and white nationalism. A spokesperson for the Rochester Police Department stated that they had received calls related to the video and were "gathering information and actively looking into the matter". On August 26, 2025, Hendrix was criminally charged with three misdemeanor counts...

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