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    82-year-old Washington woman arrested for a suspected hate crime after allegedly assaulting Trump supporters

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    An 82-year-old white woman was arrested for a suspected hate crime and assault following an altercation with Trump supporters in which she confronted one about voting for the former president based on her skin color, according to a police report.

    The incident occurred on Monday, a day before the general election, at an intersection where several Trump supporters were gathered in Edmonds, Washington, located about 17 miles north of Seattle.

    The suspect, who was not publicly identified by police, is accused of pushing and punching a 55-year-old female Trump supporter after getting into a verbal altercation, Edmonds police said. She is accused of then punching in the chin a 66-year-old female Trump supporter who intervened while demonstrating how she pushed the initial supporter, according to the probable cause statement.

    “Neither victim suffered significant injury nor required medical treatment,” the Edmonds Police Department said in a press release on Wednesday.

    A still from body-camera footage of the suspect talking to an officer in Edmonds, Washington, Nov. 4, 2024.

    Edmonds Police Department

    The suspect has not been charged in the incident, a Snohomish County prosecutor’s office spokesperson told ABC News on Thursday. The case will be reviewed by the prosecutor’s office for any charging decision.

    The suspect, who was wearing a Harris-Walz pin, told a responding officer that she approached the first supporter and said, “I want to know why you’re voting for Trump,” according to body camera footage obtained and reviewed by ABC News. “And I said, ‘Because you’re brown-skinned.'”

    “I hate the racism in this country, I hate how people are treated,” the suspect continued. “And so I’m wondering, why would somebody with brown skin support this man? And that was my question.”

    She told the officer the Trump supporter “immediately started screaming ‘racist'” in her face.

    “And my response was to push her away, and I put my hand to her chin, and I pushed on her shoulder,” the suspect said. “And it wasn’t hard. But I did do that.”

    “I didn’t help the situation,” she added.

    The Trump supporter told another responding officer in the body camera footage that the suspect told her, “You should know better.”

    “I said why? Because of my skin color? I said, ‘You’re a racist,'” she said. “Then she came up and she pushed me. And then she hit me in the frickin’ chin.”

    “She obviously didn’t hurt me,” she continued. “But it’s like, you know what, we have freedom of speech, you can say whatever you want. You can’t touch me.”

    When asked if she wanted to press charges, the woman said yes. “That makes me nervous, you can’t do that,” she said.

    The second Trump supporter said the suspect hit her face while demonstrating the initial altercation. “It was pretty forceful,” she told the officer.

    A still from body-camera footage of the suspect talking to an officer in Edmonds, Washington, Nov. 4, 2024.

    Edmonds Police Department

    The suspect told an officer at the scene that she has been wanting to talk to people of color who are supporting Trump.

    “I am definitely not a racist,” the suspect said. “But I definitely want to flag people with brown skin or other color skins that, ‘Hey, you realize what’s gonna happen?'”

    “That’s kind of racist if you’re targeting certain individuals,” the officer responded.

    “I’m not targeting them,” she responded.

    The suspect was booked into the Snohomish County Jail for an alleged hate crime and assault, police said. She was released on personal recognizance following a probable cause hearing on Tuesday, according to the Snohomish County prosecutor’s office spokesperson.

    There is no timeline on the case or any scheduled hearing dates, the prosecutor’s office spokesperson said.

    ABC News was unable to reach the suspect for comment.

    The Trump supporter who was initially approached in the incident told Seattle ABC affiliate KOMO she was still in “shock.”

    “She made it very clear it was my skin color,” the woman told the station.

    Edmonds Police Chief Michelle Bennett said in a statement that the officers “properly determined that this was more than just an assault and arrested the suspect for the appropriate charge.”

    “The constitution protects peaceful rallies in our community, and community members should never be met with violence while exercising those rights,” she said.

    Edmonds Mayor Mike Rosen said he was “disheartened that this violence has occurred in our community.”

    “Community members peacefully showing political support should not be subject to hateful violence,” he said in a statement. “I’m thankful there were no serious injuries, and the suspect was held accountable.”



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