A woman dubbed “Poolside Karen” for her rant against a Latino family told police, “I’m not normally a racist.”
Blair Featherman, 49, launched the attack on the group because they held a party at a Colorado swimming pool over the July 4 weekend.
A video uploaded to TikTok by a member of the Latino family shows her getting so enraged that she had to be held down by a man she was with.
Newly released Lakewood Police bodycam footage has revealed more details about what happened after the altercation.
Featherman labeled the family “junk” and “filthy,” telling an officer “they don’t belong here.”
A woman dubbed ‘Poolside Karen’ for her rant against a Latino family told police: ‘I’m not normally a racist’
Blair Featherman, 49, launched the attack against the group for having a party at a Colorado pool over the July 4 weekend
Police were called to the scene after the altercation in which Featherman told them to “go back to Denver.”
Bodycam footage obtained by The messengershows her telling a cop, “I’m not normally a racist at all.”
‘But I’ll tell you what, they come in, and they come in for their party, they’re messy, they’re filthy, and they don’t belong here. I pay for this.’
She also complains that the family she got into a fight with wouldn’t be arrested ‘because they’re Latinos’
Featherman later claims they are part of a gang, without providing any evidence.
Members of the Latino family explained to officers that they were residents of the luxury Alta Green Mountain complex and had in fact paid to rent out the clubhouse for a family party.
The two independent witnesses, who live in the complex, are heard telling police that Featherman initiated the ordeal.
“She said some weird, super-racist things… and got really aggressive,” someone told an officer.
While another said, ‘(Featherman) started it all; she said you don’t belong here,” before adding, the woman told her to “go back to Mexico.”
But Featherman told an officer she had video showing her being attacked by the group.
However, an officer is heard saying that nothing “criminal” appears to be happening from her clip.
“I know a cop, and this is BS,” she replies. It then appears that she calls the agent she knows and tries to get them on the phone with those on the scene.
But the responding officer explains that he can’t press charges until she can prove an assault.
Featherman says, “I get it, I get it. People get away with everything these days because they’re Latinos.’
Newly released Lakewood Police bodycam footage has revealed more details about what happened after the altercation
Featherman labeled the family “junk” and “nasty” and told a cop “they don’t belong here”
She also complains that the family she got into a fight with wouldn’t be arrested ‘because they’re Latinos’
She denied the family’s claims that she had punched a 14-year-old girl who recorded her during the tirade, but later admitted that she had tried to take her phone.
“I’m sure she’s saying that—they want to kill every white person,” Featherman claims.
“Let her go and claim it. I’ll see her in court!’
The original video shared on TikTok shows her complaining about the group, calling them “garbage” and telling them to “go back to Denver.”
She attracts a crowd of different people (and eventually the police) and continues to yell and harass the family in the clip, at one point shouting “Get out.”
“Yes, it’s true,” the bikini-clad woman can be heard saying in the clip, visibly annoyed by the group’s presence. “You’re having a bloody Mexican party in a pool.”
At this point, Featherman approaches the woman filming before physically addressing her.
‘You can not do that. You can’t just record me,’ she says, before knocking the phone out of the filmmaker’s hands.
The merged footage then cuts to what will presumably be a few minutes later, with Featherman now being held by a male member of her own party on one of the lounge chairs by the pool.
While this is happening, she continues to attack the family for their presence.
Some go around and argue with Featherman – as she continues to scream as she tries to confront the now angry group.
In the midst of the commotion, you can still hear her making xenophobic statements such as “Go away” and “go back to Denver.”
Featherman continues to scream and yell for almost the entire duration of the video, which lasts just under a minute.
When asked by one of the victims to leave the pool on her own, she is heard to reply that she lives in Lakewood, the affluent suburb where the complex is located.
Featherman launched into a racist diatribe at her Colorado luxury apartment complex, calling a group of Latinos “garbage”
Featherman said she was the one attacked by a group of women, but the posted video carefully avoided that
She told the group to “go back to Denver.” The ordeal took place at her apartment complex, where apartments cost up to $6,500 a month in rent
At one point, she is heard to angrily say to the family, who had been having a party by the pool, “I live here, where you never come from, you bloody low-class slime.”
The video then cuts to a shot of at least three police officers arriving at the scene.
They are seen talking to Featherman and the man who held her, before the clip ends.
Featherman previously told Dailymail.com that she was goaded into her thoughtless comments by a wannabe model desperate for TikTok views.
And she said she was the one who was attacked by a group of women, but the video posted didn’t show that.
“I’ve tried to keep quiet and not comment on this, but there are things the video doesn’t show,” said art consultant Featherman.
‘I’m not a racist. It has been deceptively edited and composed to tell a story that is not true.”
She said she was attacked after complaining that the group was breaking rules about the number of guests a resident of the complex could bring to the pool.
She admits it was wrong to fall for the bait and get involved in an argument, but said things had progressed to a point of annoyance.
Featherman told DailyMail.com that the group was noisy and that there were too many people around the pool who didn’t live on Alta Green Mountain.
It was then that things escalated, she claimed, saying members of the group began shouting racial slurs at her and filming her sitting poolside. “They called me white b***h and white this and white that,” she said.
“I was already having a bad day,” Featherman said. “But this was too much.”
Reaching for the phone, she claimed she had been physically assaulted.