Listen to calls to police made by woman who made racial slurs in supermarket

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A former Hamden school employee, who resigned from her position Friday after a video showing her on a racist tirade in an East Haven grocery store went viral, called police numerous times about the incident.

Four audio files were released by East Haven police on Monday to complain about what happened in the store.

Listen to the calls here:

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Corinne Magoveny-Terrone first called Easton police. In the Easton call, a dispatcher has to take another call and puts her on hold briefly, and she yells "Don't you dare put me on hold!"

When he comes back, she proceeds to tell him that she was in a grocery store talking to her children when a black man asked if she was talking to him and said a profanity, and she called him the n-word.

The dispatcher calmly asks her what town this happened in and then informs her she called the incorrect department.

She then called the East Haven Police Department. In a call that lasted longer than six minutes, she tells that dispatcher that she was walking down the center aisle at the store and got to the registers, said "Oh Jesus Christ" to her kids, and then a man in a scooter called her an offensive term and she says she called him the n-word because of what he called her.

She also tells police there was "spitting back and forth" and that "I am pressing charges."

In another call to East Haven police, she tells a dispatcher that the person who answered the phone previously was "completely unhelpful and useless."

She calls back a third time, asks who she is speaking with and then says "I was just verbally assaulted at Shop Rite in East Haven." She then goes on to explain what happened in the store, and she says "I'm not gonna sugar coat what I said."

Thousands of people shared two different videos on Facebook over the weekend that partially shows the incident.

In the footage, posted by a user whose profile name is “Tatiana Winn,” Terrone yells the n-word three times and spits at two people, a black man and woman. It is unclear how the encounter began.

After her first use of the racial epithet, the man appears to rush toward Terrone, who taunts, "Put your hands on me, come on!" and pulls out her phone to begin recording. The man then appears to quickly knock the device from her hand, and does not make further physical contact based on what is visible in the footage.

As of Monday afternoon, police said nobody has come forward yet to file a formal complaint in the case.

However, police said they are consulting the state's attorneys office and are "awaiting the final outcome of the DCF investigation."

Hamden schools notified the state Department of Children and Families after they were made aware of the video, they said in a statement over the weekend.

CORRECTION: An earlier version of this article incorrectly said the calls were made to 911. Magoveny-Terrone called the police departments at their non-emergency numbers.