Ekta Desai (Image: Facebook) 
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Indian-origin girl racially abused in US

An Indian-origin girl in the US has been allegedly racially abused by an African-American man who called her inappropriate names and yelled “get out of here” when she was travelling in a busy commuter train.

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New York

Ekta Desai, who lives in New York, took a video of the incident that occurred on Feb 23. The video was then shared by a website and has since then gone viral. In the video, the African-American man is seen abusing the girl, saying words like “Freedom of speech” and “Black Power”. 

Using expletives, he tells her to “get out of here.” As the girl is recording the video, the man gets visibly angry and is seen shouting at her.

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