Victim of racist rant video speaks out, files restraining order against woman

Victim of racist rant speaks out about the incident

LOS ANGELES (FOX 11) - We now know who shot the cellphone video of the woman at CVS who let out a minute long racist rant.

Eagle Rock resident, Adrene Ashford, says she shot the video to protect herself because she felt threatened by the woman.

Ashford has since filed a restraining order against the woman in the video, Heather Patton.

“Yeah she’s on drugs or something,” said Ashford as she followed Patton outside of the store. “No, I’m totally. I just hate N**,” yelled Patton in the now viral video.

Ashford claims she did nothing to bring on this tirade. Ashford said she was shopping when she heard the woman yelling.

“I heard screaming but I did not make out what was being said. The only time what was being said was when she got closer to me and directed it at me,” Ashford told FOX 11’s Susan Hirasuna.

Ashford explained she took the video as a protective measure.

“I filmed her and I sent that to my sister because if something happened to me, I needed someone to know what happened.”

“I would kill the *bleep* but the law says I can’t kill the *bleep*,” the woman continued to yell.

“I was the only black woman in CVS and all of those threats were directed directly to me,” said Ashford.

The woman in the video then goes on to say “If the law didn’t say I could kill the *bleep* they’d all be dead.”

Ashford has taken out a restraining order and filed a police report.

Patton has exhibited scary and threatening behavior to her neighbor multiple times, and was hardly polite when FOX 11 approached her Thursday... flipping Hirasuna off and mouthing expletives.

The other reason Ashford is taking a stand and speaking out is because she and Patton work in the same industry. Ashford is a costume designer and Patton is a wardrobe assistant.

“It scares me to high heaven that she works in my industry and she lives in my neighborhood.”