An 89-year-old Milton-Freewater woman faces a hate crime and more after police reported she called an officer a racial slur and sprayed him with a garden hose.

Milton-Freewater police Chief Doug Boedigheimer in a written statement reported two officers at about 3:04 p.m. Sunday responded to a complaint at 417 Miller St., where Juan Castillo-Epifanio reported his neighbor, Lydia Gilmore, sprayed him with her garden hose because she doesn’t like “Mexicans.” The man also told police Gilmore sprayed a personal vehicle at the residence.

Officers contacted Castillo-Epifanio and Gilmore, according to the chief, and the elderly woman greeted one with the racial slur, “wet back,” then sprayed him with the hose.

The second officer took the hose from Gilmore.

“Ms. Gilmore also physically struggled with officers,” Boedigheimer stated, “kicking them, and refusing to walk to the patrol vehicle.”

The officers arrested Gilmore and hauled her to the Umatilla County Jail, Pendleton, on initial charges of second-degree intimidation, third-degree criminal mischief, harassment, attempted assault on a public safety officer and resiting arrest.

Oregon classifies intimidation as a Class A misdemeanor and as a hate crime. Boedigheimer explained it is “predicated upon the actor’s perception, whether accurate or not, of another person’s race, color, creed, disability, or sexual orientation.”