Just before 2:00 a.m. last Friday night, police showed up at the Copper Cart Cafe in Belltown to find a man beaten so badly that he still had footprints on his face.
According to a police report, officers spoke to a man whose “mouth was bleeding profusely from several lacerations.” The man’s right eye was very swollen and “you could still make out the bottom of the suspects shoes on his face.” When police asked him what happened, he said that “he just got jumped by several men… for no reason what so ever.”
Another account, however, suggests that there was a very clear reason the man was assaulted.
Police then spoke to the employee who called 911. The man had been dancing with two women, the employee told officers, when a group of approximately 10 men made a rude comment to one of the women. The victim “defended his ladies” and began exchanging heated words with the group, the employee continued. After the employee asked the group of men to leave, the argument reportedly escalated because the victim “swung a punch” at someone in the group. The group then reportedly attacked him “using feet and fists” and pushed him around a small, separate seating room before leaving the bar.
An officer on the scene “located pools of blood in this room and blood sprayed everywhere,” the police records say. However, none of the staff reported seeing saw the assault. An officer noticed a security camera and asked for the footage. A manager said he would make a copy and bring it in the next day.
Bros before hos.
keep it classy, belltown.
That “Stop Snitching” campaign is working wonders.
This place sounds pretty upscale.
10 people. Swing the first punch.
Drunks.
@5: I know, right? If you’re outnumbered, it’s best not to start things if you can avoid it.
with 10 guys on you, you’re going down unless you’re chuck norris. might as well get some licks in.
When the show prints are on the victims face you don’t have the call them the suspect. You can call them the perpetrator.