A New Hampshire radio station has severed ties with a conservative radio host who filmed herself scolding landscape workers for speaking Spanish in a widely shared Facebook Live video.
Hostess Dianna Ploss was recorded on Friday confronting several Morin’s Landscaping employees as they installed potted trees on Main Street in Nashua, New Hampshire, about 35 miles south of the capital’s Concord. The video, which was viewed by NBC News, was removed by Ploss, but has been shared on social media.
WSMN said in a statement Sunday that Ross “is no longer associated or affiliated in any way with” WSMN or Bartis-Russell Broadcasting LLC.
“At WSMN we value freedom of expression, freedom of expression and assembly,” the statement said. “We will not tolerate discrimination, racism or hatred.”
The station added that it would continue to present and offer on-air opportunities for “discussion, education, and the exchange of opinions and ideas.”
Ploss, who presented “The Dianna Ploss Show,” did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Wednesday.
In the video, Ploss, an ardent supporter of President Donald Trump, tells landscape workers, “It’s the United States, you should speak English. They work for the state, you should speak English.”
One of the workers responds that they did not work for the state.
Ploss then asks if any of the workers are in the country illegally.
In the video, Ploss confronts a man who eats lunch nearby and asks why he is harassing workers. “Are they in America?” She answers. The man says “Yes”. She responds, “Okay. They should speak English.”
The man asks why. She says, “Are they illegal aliens? Don’t they speak the language?”
A short time later, Ploss turns the camera on itself.
“He is a black man, and he is going to protect the dark man from this white woman who practices the white privilege because he walked by and heard this guy talk to all these guys, doing this job, in Spanish,” he says in the Chamber.
Tom Morin, the owner of the landscaping company whose workers were attacked by Ploss, said he appreciated the support his company received after the episode.
“The numerous phone calls, social posts, emails, voice messages and generally kind words are extremely encouraging and sincere,” he said in a statement on the company’s Facebook page. “I think we can all be proud of how quickly the community came together to demonstrate that this type of behavior is completely unacceptable and will not be tolerated.”
Ploss has more than 46,000 followers on Facebook and more than 34,000 on Twitter. She hosts weekly shows on Facebook Live.
In a public video posted Monday on her Facebook page, Ploss, wearing a “Women for Trump” hat and sitting next to a cardboard cutout from the president, said she regretted removing the video on Friday and did so against of your best judgment.
“This is what I have to say to those who have attacked me: blank,” he said.
“Now get out of my way, because I have a country to save,” he added. “That is the end of Dianna Ploss’s public statement.”
