“How do you feel about destroying our country, Sean?” a customer at the Georgetown Apple Store asked White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer in a confrontation that lasted a little under a minute.

Shree Chauhan, a D.C.-based education advocate, filmed her interaction with Spicer on Saturday evening. The video begins with her asking “How does it feel to work for a fascist?” She follows up by bringing up “the Russia stuff” and asking if the administration is guilty of treason.

Spicer does not engage with Chauhan, other than to smile and repeat different variations of “such a great country” and “thank you very much.”

In a Medium post, Chauhan says that, while she normally gives public figures their space, “given what Mr. Spicer and his boss are doing to this country, I do not believe they are entitled to these norms and customs. Donald Trump and his Klan are openly trampling on the rule of law, our Constitution and our democracy.”

She takes issue with Spicer telling her, “Such a great country that allows you to be here.” Chauhan is an American citizen.

“That is racism and it is an implied threat,” she writes of his response. She has Indian heritage. “I am still stunned by the boldness of having my citizenship threatened on camera. I was not polite. But when does being impolite mean that I should be thrown out of the United States of America? The country I was born in, the country I was raised in, the country I love despite its flaws.”

When The Daily Mail asked her whether Spicer’s comment could have referred to her First Amendment rights rather than her heritage, Chauhan disagreed.

“‘He could’ve said, ‘Such a great country that allows dissent,'” she said. “There’s a lot of ways that could’ve been said.” She brought up the Trump administration’s travel ban, the newest version of which blocks people from six majority-Muslim countries from obtaining visas, to demonstrate why she didn’t give Spicer the benefit of the doubt.

She also brought up the increase in attacks against South Asians. One Indian immigrant was killed in Kansas and another one shot by a man who reportedly said “Get out of my country” in late February. A Sikh man was shot and injured in front of his Seattle home by an attacker who told him to “go back to your country.” Both of these incidents are being investigated as hate crimes.

Chauhan says in her Medium post that she was one of the organizers of the protest against Education Secretary Betsy DeVos at a D.C. middle school, during which DeVos was briefly blocked from entering.

“More people must rise up against the Trump regime before it is too late,” Chauhan writes. “I hope that people see this one-minute video and think about how they can get more civically engaged.”

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