Kimberly Jordan, 24, was arrested on Monday after allegedly hitting the two people in the face

A black woman has been arrested for racial harassment after allegedly hitting two white victims and being overheard saying 'I hate white people'.

Kimberly Jordan is said to have first hit a white woman in the face on a Ride-on bus in Silver Spring, Maryland, on Monday night at 9pm.

Police say she was heard talking under her breath on the bus and that she said: 'I hate white people.'

Soon afterwards, she allegedly got out of her seat and hit the woman in the face.

When the white male intervened, Jordan allegedly struck him too.

She ran away and was arrested around half a mile away.

When questioned by police, she at first claimed the other woman hit her first.

After officers reviewed the bus's surveillance footage, she changed her story to say she had not taken her 'medication' recently and that she felt remorseful.

When the officer told her not taking medication was 'no excuse for racist behavior', she replied: 'I know,' according to WJLA.

Jordan is unemployed and lives with her grandmother.

She was with a friend at the time of the incident who corroborated what the victims and the bus driver said.

She now faces 13 years imprisonment for racial harassment, obstructing and second-degree assault.