The authorities in Boulder, Colorado are currently searching for a woman who allegedly attacked a young boy earlier this week who was riding his bike while carrying a pro-Trump sign, according to the Daily Wire.
“The attack happened just after noon on Monday when the boy was riding his bike northbound on Folsom Street near Glenwood Drive,” CBS4 News reported. “Police said a woman on a moped passed him and spotted the sign that he had on the back of his bike.”
It was then that the woman was said to have made a U-turn, approached the 12-year-old boy, and then started to punch him “in the back of the head and the arms” over his apparent support for President Donald Trump.
“The woman then allegedly tried to take the sign away from the boy, but he was ‘using it to defend himself against the attack,’” CBS4 added. “The boy said he was struck between four and five times and also got scratched on the arm.”
The boy described the woman as being “white, in her late 20’s to mid-30’s with blondish brown hair past her shoulders,” according to The Denver Channel. “She was last seen wearing a small tan jacket, a blue shirt and blue jeans and was riding a grayish blue moped with a black seat.”
Jesse Rosales, the boy’s father, shared with police that the woman told his son before attacking him: “You want something to look at?” Rosales made known his intent to file criminal charges against the woman if law enforcement locates her.
“Recalling the attack, the boy told Denver7 the woman ‘just looked at me and laughed’ as she passed him before she reportedly started hitting him,” The Denver Channel added. “The boy said he was confused as the attack was happening and told Denver7 he is disappointed with people who attack others solely for their political views.”
“I like showing what I believe in,” the boy said. “I didn’t want any conflict—I just wanted to show what I believe in.”
The boy told the local news station that he is now afraid to show his support for the president.
“Just don’t attack people ‘cause what she did to me—that’s not okay,” the boy said.
The alleged incident in Colorado is just the latest act of political violence to happen in recent days. It was over the weekend that a right-wing protester was allegedly executed in the streets of Portland by a self-described member of Antifa. The suspect, 48-year-old Michael Forest Reinoehl, was killed late Thursday evening after law-enforcement officials moved in to arrest him. He reportedly pulled a gun on them, forcing the police to shoot him.
Officials said that Reinoehl “was killed during the encounter in Lacey, Washington, southwest of Seattle, when a federal fugitive task force moved in to apprehend him,” according to The New York Times. “An arrest warrant had been issued by the Portland police earlier Thursday.”
During an interview that aired on VICE News yesterday, Reinoehl said: “Lots of lawyers suggest that I shouldn’t even be saying anything, but I feel it’s important that the world at least gets a little bit of what’s really going on because there’s been a lot of propaganda put out there. I had no choice, I mean, I had a choice, I could have sat there and watched them kill a friend of mine of color, but I wasn’t gonna do that.”
The Daily Mail reported Friday morning that Reinoehl’s sister said that it was “not bad news” that her brother had been killed. She charged her brother with being verbally abusive and says she fears that he will become a martyr.