Sasha
8th July 2009, 17:32
Man Claiming to Be White Supremacist Charged For Threats at Health Center (http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2009/07/07/man-claiming-to-be-white-supremacist-charged-for-threats-at-health-center)
Posted by Jonah Spangenthal-Lee (http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/ArticleArchives?author=167426) on Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 5:57 PM
King County prosecutors have filed hate crime charges against a 24-year-old Auburn man after he allegedly pulled a large knife on a Muslim woman in a health center in the International District.
According to a Seattle Police Department probable cause document, Eric Lee Garner approached a woman inside of the Seattle Indian Health Board office on 12th Avenue S and S Weller Street and and began yelling at her. "You Muslim people scare people when you wear things like that," Garner allegedly told the woman, who was wearing a head scarf and carrying her six-month-old child. Garner continued to rant at the woman, documents say, repeatedly calling her a "Muslim *****" and telling her "When I see a black woman, it makes me want to throw up." Garner then pulled out an 8-10 inch knife, held it in front of the woman, told her "when I see a Muslim woman, I want to put the knife in her vagina" and threatened to cut the woman and her baby.
Records say Garner slammed the knife down on the counter and attempted to unsheath it, but an employee grabbed the knife off the counter. Garner then leapt over the counter, grabbed his knife and fled the building.
The police were called and officers were able to identify Garner from information he'd provided to staff at the health board office earlier in the day
The next day, officers spotted Garner on Capitol Hill and arrested him. Police found a knife in Garner's waistband and, records say, Garner told officers "he was a white supremacist and was just doing his part" and that he had purchased an AK-47 assault rifle after 9/11. Garner was booked into the King County Jail and, earlier today, was charged with Malicious Harassment, the state's hate crime statute.
Court documents say Garner has prior convictions for harassment, drugs, theft, indecent exposure, assault, possession of a dangerous weapon, graffiti, malicious mischief and possession of stolen property.
jezus fucking christ
Posted by Jonah Spangenthal-Lee (http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/ArticleArchives?author=167426) on Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 5:57 PM
King County prosecutors have filed hate crime charges against a 24-year-old Auburn man after he allegedly pulled a large knife on a Muslim woman in a health center in the International District.
According to a Seattle Police Department probable cause document, Eric Lee Garner approached a woman inside of the Seattle Indian Health Board office on 12th Avenue S and S Weller Street and and began yelling at her. "You Muslim people scare people when you wear things like that," Garner allegedly told the woman, who was wearing a head scarf and carrying her six-month-old child. Garner continued to rant at the woman, documents say, repeatedly calling her a "Muslim *****" and telling her "When I see a black woman, it makes me want to throw up." Garner then pulled out an 8-10 inch knife, held it in front of the woman, told her "when I see a Muslim woman, I want to put the knife in her vagina" and threatened to cut the woman and her baby.
Records say Garner slammed the knife down on the counter and attempted to unsheath it, but an employee grabbed the knife off the counter. Garner then leapt over the counter, grabbed his knife and fled the building.
The police were called and officers were able to identify Garner from information he'd provided to staff at the health board office earlier in the day
The next day, officers spotted Garner on Capitol Hill and arrested him. Police found a knife in Garner's waistband and, records say, Garner told officers "he was a white supremacist and was just doing his part" and that he had purchased an AK-47 assault rifle after 9/11. Garner was booked into the King County Jail and, earlier today, was charged with Malicious Harassment, the state's hate crime statute.
Court documents say Garner has prior convictions for harassment, drugs, theft, indecent exposure, assault, possession of a dangerous weapon, graffiti, malicious mischief and possession of stolen property.
jezus fucking christ