Police documents obtained by ABC elaborate, recounting how the woman told officers she first encountered the group while telling them to stop “harassing” people at a local transit center. That drew the group’s attention, and they began “charging towards her”, the police documents alleged.
She told police she fell and heard someone yell a transphobic slur. As she tried to get up and leave, members of the group began assaulting her, and one of the alleged attackers choked her. The victim reportedly said she believed she was going to die.
ABC reported that video of the reported attack – recorded by a witness – showed the group “violently punch and kick the victim” in her head and upper body, including while she was on the ground, according to what police wrote in documents. The group walked away while the woman was on the ground, police said.
Police arrested two of the suspects – boys ages 15 and 17 who were siblings – near the scene of the alleged attack soon after it happened.
A third boy, 16, was arrested Thursday on suspicion of assault and a hate crime. Police put out a plea on social media to help identify the fourth suspect, posting surveillance pictures of him, taking note of his distinctive facial hair, necklace and jacket. Court filings cited by ABC said officers identified him through his high school campus security team.
A family member on the local Crime Stoppers chapter’s website recognized the man in the photo and urged him to surrender. Police said that man then turned himself over to police to be booked on counts of assault and a hate crime.
Police did not identify the three teen suspects because of their ages. They identified the fourth as 25-year-old Ramodre Edwards.
King county prosecutors charged the two sibling suspects with assault, strangulation, great bodily harm and a hate crime. Both pleaded not guilty and were ordered to remain on electronic home monitoring, prosecutors reportedly said.
Parents stop having “exclusive” control of their children at around 6-7yo, arguably younger but… Teenagers acting like this is a result of the society they are raised in.
So your solution is to incarcerated all of society? Go door to door and lock up the entire neighborhood they live in? Arrest all their teachers? Maybe the person who was assaulted is to blame and should be locked up because they caused those kids to get violent in the first place 1.
No, these actions are owned by these kids, stop trying to shift the blame.
I am not promoting tolerance for hate, I’m advocating for implementing real solutions to problems. Prison is for sweeping problems under a rug and letting them faster and grow. Eye for an eye seems really tolerant when you’re starting from a position of “kill them and their entire families for a bruising”.
1 for the record, that is often how the legal system handles these issues and is how American schools are supposed to.
You’re pushing for no consequences for hate crimes.
No surprise that you’ll downplay assault against trans people as “a bruising.”
How do you interpret “killing 4 kids and their entire immediate families due to an assault, even a hate crime based one, isn’t justice” as “no consequences for hate crimes”.
You’re being reactionary.
I was talking about your “solution,” not the opinion of your interlocutor.
After all, so what if they assaulted someone, jail is scary and you wouldn’t want to discourage hate crimes. It’s just a little “bruising.”
No, you are putting words into my mouth. Please stop. Be an adult.
Parents are responsible for the actions of the child until 18. Full stop. Any crimes the child commits should have mirrored charges against the parent. Full stop.
That is the end of my solution.
However, what I think is most telling about you is how you have just dismissed a hate crime as a “bruising.” I think everyone should take note of your “conservative” mentality. I’m going to tag you as such so that in the future when we interact I know immediately how to treat you
Have a wonderful day
Very telling that the exaggeration you take issue with is the “hate crime as a “bruising.”” and not the “kill them and their entire families”. You are correct that I exaggerated, specifically to make the contradictions more apparent. I am sorry that came off as overly callous.
Nobody is responsible for the actions of others. Your idea on how much control a parent has/should have is truly frightening and unhinged. That is not a parent-child type relationship, that is a operator-machine type relationship. The idea you are advocating for is collective punishment and is a war crime for a good reason.
Your path leads to concentration camps and escalating violence that result in what are now just assaults becoming murders. How the hell have you deluded yourself into believing that pro-carceral solutions are the opposite of “conservative mentality”?
Fuck you, be better.
I’m not reading this, magat.
Way to demonstrate how a mature adult behaves.
I don’t talk to people who think hate crimes are just “bruising”
You should be ashamed of yourself, but it’s clear you aren’t.
I do talk to people who think the reasonable punishment for assault is the extermination of them and their entire immediate family.
Maybe I should be ashamed of thinking I can get through to reactionaries like you, but you’re right that I’m not.