A 46-year-old woman has been charged with a hate crime after allegedly yelling racist remarks at a teenager who she accused of assaulting her at Pioneer Park in Puyallup, court records show.

The woman, who is white, called Puyallup police Friday to report that a teenage boy pushed her and was leaving the scene on foot. When officers arrived, they learned from several witnesses that the woman had been shouting racial and derogatory comments at the boy, who is Hispanic and Black, and other Hispanic people at the park, according to charging documents.

She is alleged to repeatedly have told the boy that he should "go back to (his) country," got in his face, cursed at him and shoved him in the chest, the documents said.

The 14-year-old boy and witnesses reported to police that he had pushed the woman in return, according to court records.

A group at the park to celebrate a quinceañera told police that the woman had also made racial comments toward them and they tried to ignore her.

The woman, who was described in court records as uncooperative with police, requested medical attention although an officer noted observing no injuries on her, according to charging documents. One officer who responded to the scene suspected that she was having a mental health crisis; a designated crisis responder called to the park noted that the woman has a history of post-traumatic stress disorder.

She accused an officer of hurting her during her arrest, which her husband filmed with a phone, charging documents show. She was taken to a local hospital, where she was found to have a "bruised back internally — part of that would be what (she) was complaining of earlier when she said she had pre-existing injuries and part of it was because she needed to be controlled by officers during her almost one minute of resisting and struggling with police," according to charging documents.

The woman was booked in jail upon being released from the hospital.

She was charged Monday with malicious harassment, fourth-degree assault and resisting arrest, according to court records, and a plea of not guilty was entered on her behalf during an arraignment Monday. She was being held in jail Tuesday in lieu of $10,000 bail.

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