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An elementary school teacher faces charges for allegedly attacking another woman in South Carolina and calling her a racial slur.
The incident reportedly took place at a Sam’s Club warehouse in Columbia on Saturday afternoon (February 14).
The Richland County Sheriff’s Department said in a news release that deputies were dispatched to the store following a report of an a*sault.
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- South Carolina teacher Ashley Murff was jailed on suspicion of punching a woman in the face and calling her a racial slur at a Sam’s Club warehouse
- After the altercation turned physical, Murff reportedly fled the scene
- Investigators located her four days later after reviewing the store’s surveillance footage.
A fourth-grade teacher is facing criminal charges after authorities say she struck a woman and directed a racial slur at her
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By the time they arrived at the scene, the suspect, identified as teacher Ashley Murff, had already left.
The victim told deputies that she was in the checkout line when a white woman called her a racial slur, triggering a verbal dispute.
She said that when she attempted to take a photo of the woman who used the slur, the woman punched her in the face, starting a physical altercation between them.
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Four days after the incident, authorities located and arrested 42-year-old Murff, who works as a fourth-grade school teacher in Charlotte, North Carolina, according to Atlanta Black Star.
She was charged with a*sault and battery in the third degree.
T’Nae Parker, a community activist who is close to the victim, said her friend explained that the confrontation began when the victim offered to help an elderly woman.
The attack reportedly began in a checkout line after the victim offered to help an elderly shopper
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“There was an elderly lady that didn’t have the ability to stand in line, and my friend offered to just get a chicken for her,” Parker said.
“People are allowed to do that. You’re allowed to get more than one chicken.
“That’s when she called her the racial slur,” Parker continued. “She called her the racial slur twice, the N-word, and she said it twice.”
Image credits: T’Nae Parker
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Parker said her friend is still recovering from the incident, which caused her physical and emotional harm.
“She’s shaken up, physically, you know, she was punched in the face,” she told local media.
“She’s had headaches. And also, just the mental toll of it, it’s just unbelievable.”
Ashley Murff, 42, is being held at the Alvin Glenn Detention Center in South Carolina
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Regarding reports that Murff is an elementary school teacher, Parker expressed concern about the influence her beliefs may have on her students.
“The situation highlights why it matters what people believe in, the biases that they carry,” she said. “Those beliefs don’t just exist in private. They show up in classrooms.”
After reviewing surveillance footage from the store, investigators determined that Murff was the primary aggressor and arrested her. She is currently being held at the Alvin Glenn Detention Center pending a bond hearing.
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A school district spokesperson said Muff is suspended with pay pending an investigation related to her arrest.
Earlier this month, an unidentified white woman was filmed calling a Black man a racial slur in a Dallas convenience store.
The video showed the woman arguing with the man and violently snatching his glasses off his face. The man then slapped her, and the two began a physical altercation.
The case follows other incidents in the United States in which individuals were filmed using racial slurs
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“Why are you hitting me?” the woman asked, to which the man responded, “Because you hit me first!”
Before the video ended, the woman called the man the N-word as a staff member intervened to break up the fight.
Last month, a viral video showed a white man outside a San Francisco bar telling another man to “go back to Mexico” and using a racial slur.
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The unidentified man challenged the victim, telling him to “come and get it” in front of the crowd that had gathered outside the bar.
“I’ll knock you out cold, boy,” the seemingly inebriated white man threatened. “I’ll knock you out down to Mexico!” He also began making weapon gestures with his hand while yelling, “Pow, pow, pow.”
Another man then walked up and punched the aggressor in the face, prompting him to flee.
A teacher in Florida sang a version of “Happy Birthday” to a Black student that included the word “monkey”
Image credits: Richland County
In October 2025, a white teacher at a Florida elementary school received a written reprimand for singing an alternative version of the “Happy Birthday” song to a six-year-old Black student that included lyrics saying he looked like a “monkey.”
A video of the incident begins with students sitting around the child at a table as the teacher leads the class in singing the classic “Happy Birthday” song.
After they finished, the teacher asked the boy whether he would like to hear the “funny” version. The boy, reportedly named Legend, nodded, and the teacher began singing the song.
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“OK, it goes like this,” she said. “Happy birthday to you. You live in the zoo. You look like a monkey, and you smell like one, too.”
The boy’s mother filed a complaint with the school and stated, “No child should have to go to school and feel like they can’t confide in an authority figure without them calling them racial slurs, and that goes for any kid, not just my child.”
Social media users condemned the elementary school teacher following her alleged attack on the shopper
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David Andrews 2 weeks ago
None of the suggestions in the poll will make a difference in the US. The problem is not education or lack of representation, but that you have racist bigots running the country. Of course these people feel enabled to act like this when you have people in power who will defend them. Trump and the Republican party of been peddling that minorities and foreigners are criminals and a threat to white Americans for years now, telling them that they are the victims and firing up hatred
LakotaWolf (she/her) 2 weeks ago
I wonder what skin color the majority of the servants and staff of these grand high Republican billionaires have at their mansions. I'm white myself, but I was adopted at birth into a Hispanic family. My family is brown-skinned. We have a housecleaning business and all of our employees are Hispanic (you know why? because white people don't apply for jobs to clean other peoples' houses where I live.) I sometimes look at racist bigots like Trump and the only thing I can think is "I wonder if your Mar-a-Lago housekeeping, janitorial, and groundskeeping staff members are all white...?" Because I imagine the majority of them are PoC. If these idiots actually "succeeded" in "expelling" all the immigrants from the US, who will work in janitorial? Who will mow their lawns? Who will work at car washes?
Load More Replies... FreeTheUnicorn 2 weeks ago
Glad she's been charged, hopefully she gets the felony conviction, so she won't be hired by any more schools. It does seem that all these people with shockingly little emotional control are racists it's almost like there's a connection between not being able to think and being an moron.
T'Mar of Vulcan 2 weeks ago
Okay, that birthday song is innocent. When I was a kid (during apartheid), white kids would sing it to each other. "Happy birthday to you, you belong to the zoo, you look like a monkey and you act like one too." But I hope that more places in the U.S. will make hate crimes and racial slurs have stronger penalties. Then again I'm still waiting to see if any of the arseholes who posted those rude things about people just enjoying themselves at the beach in Durban are going to face the same consequences that Penny Sparrow did for saying the same stuff.
Michael Largey 2 weeks ago
The song may be innocent, but its intended usage here certainly was not.
Load More Replies... David Andrews 2 weeks ago
None of the suggestions in the poll will make a difference in the US. The problem is not education or lack of representation, but that you have racist bigots running the country. Of course these people feel enabled to act like this when you have people in power who will defend them. Trump and the Republican party of been peddling that minorities and foreigners are criminals and a threat to white Americans for years now, telling them that they are the victims and firing up hatred
LakotaWolf (she/her) 2 weeks ago
I wonder what skin color the majority of the servants and staff of these grand high Republican billionaires have at their mansions. I'm white myself, but I was adopted at birth into a Hispanic family. My family is brown-skinned. We have a housecleaning business and all of our employees are Hispanic (you know why? because white people don't apply for jobs to clean other peoples' houses where I live.) I sometimes look at racist bigots like Trump and the only thing I can think is "I wonder if your Mar-a-Lago housekeeping, janitorial, and groundskeeping staff members are all white...?" Because I imagine the majority of them are PoC. If these idiots actually "succeeded" in "expelling" all the immigrants from the US, who will work in janitorial? Who will mow their lawns? Who will work at car washes?
Load More Replies... FreeTheUnicorn 2 weeks ago
Glad she's been charged, hopefully she gets the felony conviction, so she won't be hired by any more schools. It does seem that all these people with shockingly little emotional control are racists it's almost like there's a connection between not being able to think and being an moron.
T'Mar of Vulcan 2 weeks ago
Okay, that birthday song is innocent. When I was a kid (during apartheid), white kids would sing it to each other. "Happy birthday to you, you belong to the zoo, you look like a monkey and you act like one too." But I hope that more places in the U.S. will make hate crimes and racial slurs have stronger penalties. Then again I'm still waiting to see if any of the arseholes who posted those rude things about people just enjoying themselves at the beach in Durban are going to face the same consequences that Penny Sparrow did for saying the same stuff.
Michael Largey 2 weeks ago
The song may be innocent, but its intended usage here certainly was not.
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