The patron verbally attacked Annie An, a Korean international college student, after she heard An conversing in Korean with her tutor Sean Lee. An caught some video of the incident on her phone and shared it on Facebook.
In her post, An said that before she began recording, the woman told her, "This is America. Use English only." Later the woman allegedly added, "I don’t want to hear foreign language."
"... Oriental. I hate it," the woman can be heard saying in the video.
"I’m sorry, but they’re allowed to speak their language here," a Starbucks employee is heard responding.
"President Obama said that everyone in here in America ... should speak English," the woman says
"They’re completely allowed to use their own language," the employee reiterates.
At one point, the woman types on her laptop keyboard and declares, "You’re going to be in trouble when I get this letter out" ― before another customer notes, "You’re pressing numbers over and over again."
The Starbucks worker repeatedly asks the woman to leave and threatens to call the police.
Eventually police officers arrived ― An wrote that they were called by Starbucks ― and escorted the woman out of the establishment.