In this police report, the officer logs into service and responds to the report of an in-progress strong-armed robbery at NE 143rd Street and Lake City Way. Upon arrival, he makes contact with the victim, who is being treated by Seattle Fire Department for minor injuries.

The victim makes this statement: At approximately 0305 hours, he left his apartment for a walk. He walked north on one street, turned east on another. It is at this point he observed the suspects. One suspect asked him questions about where he lived, but did not like the answers he received. The suspect accused him of getting "fresh." The victim then heard one of the males talking about jumping him. At that point, he decided to keep on moving.

After a short distance later, he went into a 7-Eleven, and saw the suspects at the store. He kept on walking southbound on Lake City Way. Eventually he found two suspects were walking in front of him, and three were behind him. He realized this was a bad situation.

He stopped at the bus stop to have "a brief conversation with an unknown citizen." The suspects began talking to him again, and he kept walking. The suspects followed him to NE 140th Street and Lake City Way, where things escalated. The victim heard one male say: "I just got out of prison, homie, and you remind of a bitch I fucked in the ass the entire time I was there." The victim told the suspects that he didn't want any problems, did not want to fight, he just wanted a walk. One suspect threw a punch at the victim but he avoided being hit. The victim turned to walk away, and he was hit on the head.

A curious detail enters the report here, one that makes you wonder about what was really going on and if this incident was not in essence a hate crime: The blow to the back of the victim's head knocked off his fedora.

From the report:

The victim bent over and picked up his fedora. Suspect #1 then punched him in the back of the head, again causing his fedora to hit the ground. He picked up his hat and kept moving, trying to put some space between him and his attackers. Suspect one then punched him in the right cheek... The continued attack knocked the fedora off again. This time, one of the suspects grabbed his hat. After the attack, all the suspects fled S/B on Lake City, from NE 140th Street.

The victim was advised to call 911 if he saw his attackers in the future.