The Texas woman dubbed Taco Truck Tammy insists she's not racist after she was caught on camera threatening to call Immigration and Customs Enforcement on Mexican food vendors.
The woman, who goes by Valerie, went viral after she was caught on camera recording taco truck vendors in her Dallas neighborhood saying 'You can't be here' and 'I'll call ICE'.
She says it was an 'unfortunate' incident but insists that the vendors were aggressive towards her first.
'One of them said, "Get back in your house b***h or we'll kick your a**," she claimed.
'I took their comments seriously when they told me to go back in my house or they'd kick my a**! I just didn't want my a** kicked! And I like tacos! Just not in my neighborhood,' she said to NBCDFW.
A Texas woman Valerie, who is dubbed 'Taco Truck Tammy', is apologizing for threatening to call ICE on two Hispanic food vendors in a viral video posted to YouTube on Thursday
She claims the video doesn't show the full story and the vendors told her to go inside her home or they'd 'beat her a**', but adds she regrets her 'unfortunate' words
She said she feared for her safety and retaliated with her verbal attack.
She explained she was in the stressful process of selling her home and when the honking taco truck came around, she reached a 'breaking point'.
'There's all the honking going on with the taco truck coming up and the hammering and the beeping and I just walked out and said, "You guys can't be here. This is a residential area, you guys need to move." So probably that hurt,' she said.
'It was an unfortunate comment. I wish I used my words better,' she added to KHOU11.
She says she filed a police report against the food truck operators for harassment.
She also blamed a recent death in the family for her wild reaction.
'It was just a moment of a very bad choice of words,' she said. 'I regret the comment at the end. It was a flippant comment. It doesn't really reflect who I am. It
