Minnesota prosecutors filed misdemeanor disorderly conduct charges Tuesday against a woman, identified as Shiloh Hendrix, accused of repeatedly using a racist slur toward a Black child at a Rochester playground — an incident that drew national outrage and that the woman has since used to raise more than $800,000 online.
The criminal complaint alleges the defendant “wrongfully and unlawfully engaged in offensive, obscene, abusive, boisterous, or noisy conduct, or in offensive, obscene, or abusive language that would reasonably tend to arouse alarm, anger or resentment in others.”
Why It Matters
A viral video of the April incident, in which the woman admitted to using the racial slur, has been viewed millions of times. The footage shows a man confronting her for directing the slur at the child, and her responding by repeating the term and raising her middle finger.
By Tuesday, Hendrix had collected more than $800,000 on the Christian fundraising site GiveSendGo — much of it after the charges were filed — with a goal of $1 million. In a June update, she dismissed criticism as “silly misinformation.”
What to Know
Hendrix was charged by summons with three misdemeanor counts of disorderly conduct, each carrying up to 90 days in jail and a $1,000 fine…