When a city refuses to control its population of vagrants.
A 35-year-old Seattle man is facing assault and hate crime charges following allegations that he accosted a clerk at a Queen Anne convenience store.
According to police, Brock Stainbrook derided the man as being a terrorist during the Tuesday morning incident.
Writing the court, a Seattle detective said Stainbrook entered the 7-11 store in at 362 Denny Way. The clerk was standing near a coffee machine when Stainbrook accosted him.
“For unknown reasons a person threw change on the floor near the victim’s feet then punched the victim on the left side of the head,” the detective said.
“After the suspect struck (the clerk) with his fist he said, ‘You’re not even American, you’re Al-Qaeda. Go back to your country.'”
Another employee then stepped in, forcing Stainbrook to leave the store. As he did so, police allege the man tried to kick the second employee and damaged a barcode scanner.
Police arrested Stainbrook walking nearby minutes later. Confronted by police, he allegedly admitted that he “struck a person on his turban” because he disliked him. While the alleged victim’s ethnic background is not noted in court documents, his surname is common within the Sikh community.
Stainbrook has been charged with fourth-degree assault and malicious harassment, Washington state’s hate crime statute.
The entirety of the leftosphere is, of course, laying the blame for this attack on FOX News and the various tea party orgs for their “spreading of hate”.
Sadly for them, this end of town is where all the bums go during the summer because it contains the Seattle Center, Space Needle, Experience Music Project, The Science Fiction Museum and attracts a large portion of the tourists that come to Seattle. The only other place you’ll find a population of hobos even close to this is the Seattle Waterfront District, and that is just because the latter is within walking distance of Pioneer Square. And I would lay a fiver down that this guy is among our “transient population”.
The likelihood that this guy has a TV to watch FOX on is minuscule, and the only AM radio he probably gets to hear is when he wanders up to cars to beg for change at the stop light.
He had excellent radio reception inside that tinfoil hat he was wearing.