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Police: No charges over slur aimed at wife of Pennsylvania's lieutenant governor

Updated  October 15, 2020 6:52pm EDT
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2nd Lady of PA verbally assaulted with a racial slur in parking lot

Gisele Berrato Fetterman joined Good Day Philadelphia to talk about the verbal assault that she endured over the weekend while she was in a grocery store.

BRADDOCK, Pa. - The woman who was recorded by the wife of Pennsylvania’s lieutenant governor directing a racial slur against her at a grocery store won’t be charged, state police said Thursday.

A news release said investigators concluded the woman’s actions were a violation of state criminal law, but Gisele Fetterman and Lt. Gov. John Fetterman did not wish to see her prosecuted.

Gisele Fetterman said the woman seemed to recognize her on late Sunday afternoon near her home in Braddock and repeatedly used racial slurs.

She followed as Fetterman retreated to her vehicle in the store parking lot, and was seen using a slur during a two-second clip that Fetterman posted to social media.

Gisele Fetterman said Thursday she preferred that the woman instead get assistance from social service agencies and other help.

“The optimal outcome to this scenario lays in a way forward and away from hate,” Fetterman said in a statement also posted on her Twitter feed.

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