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Refugee-Tripping Camerawoman Apologizes, Swears She's Not a "Heartless, Racist, Children-Kicking" Kind of Person

Perhaps in an attempt to look even worse, the disgraced Hungarian camerawoman with the loose foot has issued the classic "sorry not sorry" response.

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As previously reported, the modern scientists currently hard at work developing new ways to be an insufferable asshole finally made a breakthrough this week thanks to a now famous infamous Hungarian camerawoman: tripping and/or kicking refugeesPetra Laszlo was filmed engaging in this new level of assholery with apparent enthusiasm, followed quickly by the immediate virality of the footage.

Laszlo is now facing criminal charges of "truculency," meaning the apology she issued on Friday shouldn't come as a gigantic surprise from someone who is apparently so skilled at being an asshole that her go-to greeting for refugees is to trip them. "I was scared as the crowd rushed toward me, and then something snapped in me,” Laszlo says in a statement released to Magyar Nemzet. "I'm not a heartless, racist, children-kicking camerawoman. I do not deserve the political witch hunts against me, nor the smears or often the death threats. I'm just a woman, and now an unemployed mother of small children, who made a bad decision in a situation of panic. I am truly sorry."

Laszlo is right, isn't she? I mean who hasn't intentionally tripped a refugee carrying a child in a brief moment of "panic" while holding a camera?

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