After a woman went on a racist tirade outside a CVS, police are investigating it as a "hate incident."

A now-viral video shows a woman screaming racial slurs outside a CVS in Eagle Rock, Los Angeles. The woman can be seen jumping up and down, screaming the n-word. Bystanders began commenting on the woman’s mental health and threatening to call the police when she storms out of the store. She continues shouting racial obscenities, threatening black people. 

“I would kill a n****r, but the law says I can’t kill the n****r. If the law didn’t say I could kill all the n****rs they’d all be dead,” she shouted. 


The rant was all caught on a cell phone and has since gone viral. Officer Jeff Lee said the incident was reported to the Los Angeles Police Department on Wednesday and they have taken a hate-incident report. Although the police said they have not identified the woman yet, a man has come forward alleging that she was his neighbor of nine years. 

The man told KTLA that her name is Heather Patton and said this wasn’t the first time something of this nature has happened. 

“We had to file restraining orders against her and her husband for warning to … threaten us, to assault us. They were yelling racial slurs,” the man, who is referred to as Tony, told the news station. 

Tony and his mother are of Italian descent, and the woman has told them to go back to their country. Tony installed security cameras after Patton vandalized his father’s truck. He provided KTLA with footage of his former neighbor threatening to slit someone’s throat and another of a man and woman getting into an altercation on the street. He said the evidence was used in court proceedings.