A South Carolina man is accused of threatening a city attorney in Minnesota over charges filed against a woman who admitted to hurling racist slurs at a child with autism at a park.

The original incident occurred in April at Roy Sutherland Playground in Rochester, Minnesota. Charges said the woman repeatedly called an 8-year-old Somali boy a racial slur after he took an applesauce pouch from her diaper bag. The boy's father said he is "profoundly and visibly autistic" and "does not understand typical boundaries."

A witness began recording the woman after the fact, and the video of that confrontation went viral. In the video, the woman defended her use of the slur, saying "she can call him that 'if he acts like one,'" according to the complaint. She also called the witness a slur on v

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