- Leslie Socolov accosted a man, calling him a “stupid Jew,” in a video shared on Twitter.
- Socolov, who wore a Miami-Dade Police Department jacket, is a retired employee of the department.
- In 2015, she reportedly killed a veteran, but was not prosecuted due to a Florida hit-and-run law.
A woman wearing a Miami-Dade Homicide jacket got out of her car outside a Boca Raton, Florida, restaurant Satuday to accost another driver, telling him, “Just because you’re Jewish and a Democrat doesn’t give you the right to stay there.”
The woman, identified as Leslie Socolov, worked for the Miami-Dade Police Department for close to 20 years in a civilian role as a stenographer for the homicide unit, the Miami Herald reported. Socolov, whom the police department said has retired, was responsible for the death of a homeless man in a 2015 hit-and-run, according to local news outlets.
“Move your f—-ing car you stupid Jew,” Socolov, 64, appears to say in the video, also calling him a “motherf—ing piece of s—.” She yelled at the man because he had parked his car behind hers outside of the restaurant, the Miami New Times reported. Socolov told the Miami Herald in an interview that she herself is Jewish.
The video, which was posted on Twitter by StopAntisemitism.org, a website that posts stories of anti-Semitic incidents, has more than 90,000 views as of Thursday afternoon.
Read the article by Rachel E. Greenspan in Business Insider Australia.