Global Courant 2023-05-22 19:31:09
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Ashley Barkis, the woman caught in a viral video last week assaulting an Asian man after a car crash in Los Angeles is getting online backlash for her recent apology video.
On Wednesday, TikTok user @sam.anthabong shared the now viral video which shows Barkis verbally and physically attacking the man in response to the four-car collision.
Although the man did not cause the collision, Barkis chooses to directs her anger at him since his car collided with hers.
“You hit my car, so where’s your insurance!” Barkis is heard to say. “Do you have a driver’s license? Are you from America? Do you have papers? Are you legal to be here? Where is your driver’s license?”
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Barkis can be seen physically assaulting the man and his passengers, who all got out of their cars. She pushes the man towards oncoming traffic and eventually returns to her car.
When @sam.anthabong posted her video to TikTok, Barkis’ identity was unknown at the time.
“Please help spread the word so we can find this woman! no one deserves to be treated like this,” the TikTok user wrote.
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Barkis, who was eventually identified, responded to the online backlash she received by posting an apology video to her now-deleted Instagram account.
In the apology video, which has been shared again by TikTok users like Ellen Acuario (@ellenacuario), Barkis tries to explain herself and even claims she is half Filipino.
“I apologize for any insult to the Asian community as I am half Filipino,” Barkis is heard saying.
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“There are so many other ways I could have asked if he understood me or if there was something wrong with his driver’s license or just waited for the police to get there,” she continues. “I hope you now understand that I am not racist at all.”
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Acuario, who also uses “Your Funny Unni” on TikTok, comments on Barkis’ claims in her own video, saying, “You’ve moved out of your Filipino pride. … Because seriously, this is one of the worst cases that it ever be your own people. To express all this hate about Asians being illegals?”
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In a continued TikTok video on Saturday, @sam.anthabong shares screenshots of an alleged conversation between Barkis and a former colleague.
Barkis appears to defend her actions in the messages.
The end of the video also shows another alleged conversation, this time between Barkis and a TikTok user named Chris Moua.
Moua, who has seemingly deleted his TikTok video containing the alleged conversation, tells Barkis, “What you did was wrong.”
In response, Barkis reportedly says, “Honestly, f*ck your and your Asian community, you are the scourge of the earth and brought the coronavirus to America. I really wish I pushed him harder and the car hit him and crushed his head. You stupid Chinese f*ck.”
“Just don’t understand why she keeps trying to justify her actions as if there is no justification for physical violence,” says @sam.anthabong in one of her comments about her recent post.
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Replying to @🦋 just to answer questions #greenscreen
