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NANTICOKE – A 45-year-old woman was charged with ethnic intimidation after she allegedly told a woman and her two sons “all you blacks look alike” and flicked a lit cigarette at one of the boys at their bus stop at West Main and Slope streets on Thursday, according to an affidavit filed Monday at District Judge Donald Whitaker’s office.
Mary Louise Warner, of 212 Apollo Circle, on Monday denied making any racial comments, stating that she only said the two boys look like twins because they are hard to tell apart, court papers said.
According to court papers:
Tawana Simpson reported to police that her two sons were being harassed at their bus stop because they are black. Simpson and her husband, John, went to the stop Thursday and confronted Warner, who became angry.
Warner then made multiple derogatory slurs and flicked a lit cigarette at one of Simpson’s sons, just missing his head.
Warner stuck her middle finger in Simpson’s sons’ faces, called them a racial epithet and said “all you (explicative) should die.”
Police spoke with Simpson’s two children, whose stories matched up with their mother’s. Police also spoke with two other parents at the bus stop, and both told police that they observed Warner yelling that the “black people should all die” and shouting out racial epithets to black people on street.
When questioned, Warner said she was harassed by Simpson.
Warner was charged with ethnic intimidation and harassment. She could not be reached for comment Monday.