The San Jose Police Department arrested a 47-year-old woman accused of stalking and committing hate crimes against a family after a viral video captured her accusing a father of being a pedophile because he had a different skin color than his daughter.
The police responded to reports of a hate-motivated crime that took place on September 6th in the 6400 block of Aspen Creek in the Almaden area, stated the San Jose Police Department.
According to investigators, the woman pulled up to the father and his 6-year-old daughter multiple times while they were walking together along a pedestrian and bicycle trail and proceeded to make derogatory remarks toward them.
The father recorded the event and uploaded it on TikTok, where it went viral. In the video, the woman tells the father she is recording and that she works with “the feds.”
“I’m making sure that you’re not sex trafficking this poor little girl, who’s very unhappy to be with you. It doesn’t look like your child,” she states.
Despite being called out on her comments, the father, who said that he is brown and his daughter is half-white, continues walking. She continues, “That’s a white little girl, and you’re a man of color, so I believe you’re either buying or selling or trafficking this child.”
@yosemiteshyam She accused me of trafficking my own daughter, commented on our different skin colors, then quoted the Bible and told us to “burn in hell.” #karen #racism #karensoftiktokkarensgonewild #sanjose #losgatos #racistwomen
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Police used automatic license plate reader cameras to track down the silver Honda Fit she was using. The assaults team conducted an additional investigation, which concluded that there were other hate crimes committed around the city, one of which was committed on September 9th at a high school in South San Jose.
She was arrested on September 10th and booked into the Santa Clara County Main Jail on charges of stalking, hate crimes, among other charges. The investigation is still ongoing. The police department has not said whether the investigation proved her accusations against the father.
Police have not publicly disclosed the woman’s name. Some sources have identified her as Lindsay Hansen.
The hate crime against the school prompted the San Jose Unified School District to issue a notice on September 10th to families that a woman harassed members of the school community, taped them, and shared the recordings through social media. A post was alleged to capture her taping herself in the girls’ locker room of a South Bay high school while accusing physical education teachers of sexual misconduct, as per NBC Bay Area, which also indicated that her profile had numerous videos and posts relating to religion, race, and sex.
In an open profile that she had, the woman identifies herself as a professional who exposes child sex traffickers and uploads information that she says shows trafficking rings, images of which seem to be edited and produced by artificial intelligence software. Additional posts in the same profile included her statements against the Jewish people, Muslim communities, Asian immigrants, and the LGBTQ+ community. Investigators have not yet commented on those posts.
The woman was reported missing in 2022 due to her significant mental health issues, according to KTVU. A journalist found the Honda Fit in another part of the Almaden area on September 9th, and her father refused to comment.
