Going Viral: Texas Beachgoer Hurls Racist Abuse At Muslim-American Family

On May 3, a 35-year-old Connecticut man named Alexander Jennes Downing was arrested in Texas after a report of a disturbance. He was arrested for public intoxication, according to Fox 5 San Diego.

Above, you can see part of the “disturbance.” You can see a video taken by a family alleging that Downing harassed them on a beach in South Padre Island.

He said, “You’re a fucking Muslim, motherfucker,” and, “You will never, ever, ever, stop me — my Christianity — from rising above your Shariah law. Your Shariah law don’t mean shit to me.” At one point, he even invited the group to “suck [his] dick.”

But wait! There’s more! Naturally, the guy invoked Donald Trump, as many people caught shouting racist things in these videos do.

“Donald Trump will stop you! Donald Trump will stop you!” he yelled along with, “Donald Trump is my president.”

What Trump will stop them from is unclear. It does not appear to be going to the beach. This guy, though, was stopped from something when he got locked up! Behold, via the South Padre Island Police Department:

In a YouTube video description from someone claiming to be a member of the group that was accosted, a poster wrote this:

My father was approached by two woman who were also enjoying their time. The women asked him to help with talking to a stranger who was harassing them. All my father said to the guy was “please enjoy your time and have fun and let everyone else here enjoy their time.” The guy seemed to listen and walked away. He then came back to my father and started throwing racist comments. He was yelling so loud that my uncles and my brother came over from the water to see what was going on. The insane man came close to the kids and that’s when my uncle stood up to him and defended us and the kids, including my 4 year old cousin, 4 and 2 year old nephews. The video here shows a glimpse of what we all had to experience.

The poster went on to thank the police “who took the insane man right away and assured [them] that this is a nice place but every now and then they get a crazy person like this.”

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