‘Get out of his country’: CNN reporter says man yelled racist words at her in Myrtle Beach
CNN reporter Natasha Chen was filming a segment in Myrtle Beach on Sunday when she said a man yelled racist comments at her over her wearing a mask while working.
Chen, a national correspondent for the news network, said while working on a story about the Memorial Day weekend at Myrtle Beach, a person approached her yelling expletives about her wearing a mask and blaming her for the pandemic.
“In addition to shouting at us while I had a mask on. He said to me ‘to get out of his country,’ with an expletive. And said I was the reason for this, referring to my ethnicity,” Chen said while speaking after the fact on CNN.
Chen’s account of the story can be viewed on CNN’s website.
The news story Chen was working on was about how the weekend in Myrtle Beach was going given the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. She said everyone else she spoke with was friendly and open to telling the perspective.
While speaking about the comments, Chen was not wearing a mask. She explained that she takes it off when no one is around to speak into the camera, but puts it back on while walking around or in a crowd.
Chen went on to highlight beach goers behind her who maintained a distance from their neighbors and reiterated how friendly the rest of the people she interacted with had been.
This story was originally published May 24, 2020 at 7:09 PM.
