The Seattle police arrested a 35-year-old woman after she allegedly attacked a 50-year-old security guard with a machete, reporting asking the man if he was an “officer” and retrieving a machete from her vehicle before hacking him with the weapon, according to Breitbart News.
“According to a witness, the suspect then got out of her vehicle while carrying a Nerf Blaster, approached the guard and asked if he was an officer,” the SPD Blotter reported.
The security guard was reportedly patrolling near the 1600 block of 12th Avenue, wearing a vest emblazoned with the word “officer.”
“When the victim walked away, the suspect continued shouting insults at him. During the incident, the woman returned to her vehicle, retrieved a foot-long machete and began walking toward the guard and a witness,” police said.
Breitbart reported that the witness and the guard attempted to retreat to an apartment building, but the suspect followed and slashed the security guard’s forearm as he tried to shut the building’s door, leaving him with two “five-inch cuts.”
“At the same time the guard was struggling with the suspect, a group of protesters down the block had dumped garbage and set fire to a flag on the SPD East Precinct fence line,” SPD Blotter reported.
“Members of the protest group initially tended to the guard’s wounds before police took over, placed a tourniquet on the man and called for Seattle Fire medics. The victim was later transported to Harborview Medical Center with non-life-threatening injuries.”
“A short time later, officers found the suspect at a gas station on Broadway, where she had changed her clothing. Officers booked her into the King County Jail for assault.”
Portland journalist Andy Ngo took to Twitter following the incident, tweeting: “During violent BLM-antifa protests in Seattle last night in Capitol Hill (the former CHAZ), a woman mistook an apartment security guard for a cop and attacked him with a machete. She was caught nearby, where she had changed clothes.”
During violent BLM-antifa protests in Seattle last night in Capitol Hill (the former CHAZ), a woman mistook an apartment security guard for a cop and attacked him with a machete. She was caught nearby, where she had changed clothes. https://t.co/Xlvr6oOCbR
— Andy Ngô (@MrAndyNgo) September 9, 2020
The machete attack follows Monday’s protest in the city where demonstrators hurled Molotov cocktails at officers. A signed located at the protest read: “All My Heroes Kill Cops,” reflecting the general sentiment of many violent protesters and rioters across the country.
A sign at tonight’s anti-police rally in Seattle reads: “All my heroes kill cops.” These people are monsters. pic.twitter.com/i1bepRMyin
— (((Jason Rantz))) on KTTH Radio (@jasonrantz) September 8, 2020
Twenty-two people were arrested as a result of the Labor Day protests in Seattle.
Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan has largely failed to condemn the violent unrest in her own city, reserving her sharp criticisms for President Donald Trump, pinning him for the escalation of violence in Democrat-run cities such as her own.
“Again, the president’s actions clearly have escalated things in Seattle, and across the country,” she said during a July appearance on CNN’s Outfront.
“I was just talking to a number of mayors throughout the country who saw a similar thing that — people wanting to act out against the president and his administration coming to the streets,” she continued, blaming Trump for “using law enforcement as a political tool.”
“I hate to say it, Erin, but I really believe that we are seeing the dry run for martial law,” she added. “This is a president that is using law enforcement and federal forces for political purposes, and that should be chilling to every American.”