KTTC - Rochester man speaks out after recording racial slurs against child

By Ryder Blair
Published: May. 2, 2025 at 11:43 PM EDT

ROCHESTER, Minn. (KTTC) – The man who recorded a viral video spoke out after reportedly shooting the video in a Rochester park involving racial slurs against a child.

As of Thursday, Rochester police are actively looking into the video shot by Sharmake Omar, which appears to show a woman holding a small child, while making racial slurs in reference to another child at the playground. The woman claimed the child had taken something that belonged to her child.

On Apr. 28 at Roy Sutherland Park, Omar said he noticed a woman yelling racial slurs at a 5-year-old African American special needs boy, and he felt it was only right to defend the child, record the incident on his phone, and post it on social media.

“If it was my child, I would want somebody else to stand up for him,” Omar said.

With a child of his own on the spectrum, Omar said he felt he did what he thought was right.

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Yahoo - Videotaped woman whose racial slurs against child went viral raises $300k online

Michelle Del Rey
Fri, May 2, 2025 at 8:35 PM EDT



A woman who went viral after she was videotaped in a confrontation for using a racial slur against a child has raised hundreds of thousands of dollars online, which she claimed she now needs to relocate for her family’s safety.

While some may have donated to get her out of the community, others defended her actions in their replies to the fundraiser.

Shiloh Hendrix was videotaped as a man confronted her about using the slur against a child at Soldiers Field Memorial Park in Rochester, Minnesota. She laughed and stuck her tongue at him as she carried her own child on her hip.

Hendrix defended her actions and told the man that the child had stolen her kid’s diaper bag. When told the language she was using was “hate speech,” the woman responded that she didn’t “give a s***.”

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