Sheriff’s office employee fired after going on racist rant at McDonald’s

An employee of a Georgia sheriff’s office was fired after he was caught on video telling an art student with Hispanic heritage that she came to the US “on a f—king boat,” local reports said.

The student, identified by an NBC affiliate as 19-year-old Cristina Riofrio, said on Twitter that she was speaking to her friends at a Savannah McDonald’s in Spanish on Saturday night when the man began yelling racist statements at them.

Riofrio recorded the man and posted video of the incident to her Twitter page, which went viral shortly after.

The video starts with the man telling Riofrio that he worked for years in the US.

“What did you do?” he then asks. “You come on a f—king boat.”

“Shut up!” he then barks at her. “Shut the f—k up!”

“You’re a racist,” Riofrio then tells him, according to the video.

“I know I am,” the man responds. “Speak English.”

A McDonald’s employee then intervenes toward the end of the footage, telling the man he had to leave the restaurant.

A spokesperson for the Chatham County Sheriff’s Office told the NBC affiliate that the man was an employee of the department and was fired Wednesday morning. They did not provide his name or position.

Riorfrio, who attends Savannah College of Art and Design, told the station that she was born in California and her parents are from Ecuador.

The student fumed about the incident on Twitter, writing in one message: “In america, i can speak F—G spanish if i want to.”