![]() ![]() Video shows the man squaring up to Tran, his fiancé, and their two dogs. The clip also shows the man backing away from the couple as soon as their dog, Jormi, growled. “I could tell he was a little unhinged. There was something wrong,” Tran said, adding his experience helped him “to assess the situation and figure out okay is this person a threat and should I try to de-escalate something.” “He was threatening to beat me,” said Tran, a Houston native, and Army veteran. He said he thought of his military training and began trying to remove himself and his fiancé from the situation. That’s when Tran said he took out his phone and began to record. Tran says he and Stephanie kept walking, but the man followed. ![]() “I tried to just keep my cool but I yelled back and just told him to keep walking.” “He was yelling a lot of, you know, slurs, and then mainly saying I hate mixed couples,” Tran said, adding he didn’t want to fan the flames. Tran recorded a video of the encounter, which he shared with Houston police, as well as social media, showing the man shouting hateful speech toward the couple. Suddenly, we just started hearing screaming,” Tran said. “We saw him kind of coming toward us but we didn’t think anything of it. Tran said they were walking near the intersection of Meadowvale Drive and Tanglewide Street when the man approached them. “As many racial slurs as he could think of,” said Andy Tran. Tran and his fiancé Stephanie were the man’s target. HOUSTON – Houston police are searching for a man recorded on video hurling antisemitic, racist slurs at an interracial couple, as they walked their dogs Tuesday in southwest Houston. ![]()
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