This post has been updated.

WARNING: VIDEO CONTAINS OFFENSIVE LANGUAGE.

Yet another incident of racism caught on camera is swirling around social media, this time in Washington County. And the repercussions for the man at the center of it were swift and final: he was fired from his job as a plumber.

Susan Khalaf of Aloha posted a video on Facebook on Tuesday of what appears to be a man clapping his hands and yelling a racist slur at her out the window of his car. The man started yelling vulgar terms at Khalaf in a "classic case of road rage," before she started recording, she said. She then took a video of the man on her phone when the shouting continued at the next red light.

The man, driving a red SUV, is shown yelling several derogatory terms, including one used to describe those who immigrated illegally from Mexico, while clapping his hands. Khalaf repeatedly said back to the man that she is Arab before he drove away. The incident occurred in Beaverton, Khalaf said.

Social media users identified the man as an employee of a Troutdale plumbing company. Sgt. Bob Ray, a Washington County Sheriff's Office spokesman, said the man is Joseph Metoxen, a 35-year-old who lives in Aloha.

Ray said Metoxen called the sheriff's office Tuesday night because he was worried for his safety after seeing the video gaining traction on Facebook.

Deputies looked into his background, Ray said, and found he was wanted on a municipal warrant for criminal mischief in Beaverton that was not related to the road rage incident. Metoxen was arrested at his home, Ray said.

A statement from the president of Wolcott Plumbing said the man had worked there since spring of 2012 and had been "immediately terminated" following the video.

"First of all, this is a very upsetting situation. Under no circumstances do I personally nor do we as a company condone the use of abusive language of any kind to anyone," the statement reads. "Last night I became aware that a video existed, potentially of one of my employees after work hours, using racial slurs, while driving in his personal vehicle. Upon further investigation today, I learned and confirmed it was one of my employees in the video."

At about noon on Wednesday, Facebook removed the video and post, Khalaf said. The video still appeared on YouTube.

Khalaf said she hadn't expected her video to go viral. The clip had been viewed about 383,000 times and her post shared more than 8,825 as of Wednesday morning.

After the incident, Khalaf, who was born in California and moved to Beaverton in 1991, said she had to pull over in a parking lot and take a break before continuing her drive. Khalaf is Jordanian and said she's encountered racism before, but nothing to this degree.

"I'd just never experienced anything like that in my life," Khalaf said. "I was just absolutely shocked. I was very upset."

A user on the site Reddit claimed that the man's actions prompted police visits as they live at a former address of the man.

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The video is just one of many racist incidents that have circulated online. In some cases, they have cost employees their jobs.

A Pennsylvania man was recently fired after harassing anti-fracking protestors and making racist remarks to a cameraman. In December 2013, a public relations executive lost her job after sending out an offensive tweet that circulated on Twitter as she flew to South Africa. Last fall a racist tweet also cost a student in Arizona her internship.

Khalaf said her goal in posting the video was to make people aware that racism still exists. She said she does not want the man to be harmed.

"Racism is so unnecessary and it's so ugly," she said. "I wanted people to see how ignorant they look and just that racism is still very much alive out there. It's right in our backyard."

--Laura Frazier

lfrazier@oregonian.com

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@frazier_laura

This post has been updated with further information about the video, a statement from Wolcott Plumbing and information from Sgt. Bob Ray, a Washington County Sheriff's Office spokesman.