A Race Unknown/Pioneer Square/Sun Sept 10/11 pm: Officer T. Mooney was doing a premises check of Occidental Park on his bike when a man with a bleeding nose and mouth ran up to him and said he'd just been robbed and brutalized. The man, whose race was so bizarre to Officer Mooney that he described it as "U," meaning unknown, said his attackers were still on the 100 block of Yesler. The bleeding man of unknown race then ran with Officer Mooney and his partner to Occidental and Yesler, where the man pointed at a large white woman and shouted, "That's her!" He then pointed at a black male across the street from the woman and said, "That's him!" The cops arrested the suspects and later obtained the following story from the victim:
He was walking through Pioneer Square when the black man and the large white woman, who were standing in a recessed stairway, asked him for cigarettes and spare change. The man of unknown race said he had neither. The black man asked if he was looking to get high. The man of unknown race said no. The black man then grabbed the man of unknown race and threw him into a wall, demanding money. The man of unknown race said he had none. The white woman then grabbed him from behind and put him in a head lock. The black man removed the man's wallet and kicked him in the butt. A third person appeared and punched the man of unknown race in the face. He fell to the ground and the white woman, black man, and unidentified third person began kicking him. They then took his leather jacket and fled.
After hearing this story, Officer Mooney conducted a thorough check of Pioneer Square for the third suspect, but failed to locate him.
The Black Suspects/Downtown/Mon Sept 11/5:30 am: Early this morning, a downtown resident was awakened by shouting coming from outside his apartment building on the 100 block of Blanchard. The resident looked out his window and saw a group of black men standing nearby. He asked the black men to keep the noise down. The black men complied. Five minutes later, however, the black men started shouting again--this time about a robbery they had committed! The men described how they beat up someone and went through their victim's pockets. The concerned citizen called the cops, who were immediately dispatched to the area. Upon arrival, the cops found four black men standing just where the resident had said. They began to quickly walk away, but the cops managed to round them up anyway. When questioned about their activities, they answered, "We were just hanging out," and claimed to know nothing about a robbery. The four black suspects possessed Washington state IDs, and their names raised no alarms on the cop computer.
Terrible Teens/Capitol Hill/Mon Sept 11/ 11:56 am: A man was standing on the corner of Broadway and Pine when two males (one large and white, one small and white) pulled a gun on him and ordered him to cross Pine. The victim (a fully employed man in his mid-30s) obeyed the suspects (unemployed teenagers!) and somberly crossed the street. Once on the other side, the large white teen hit the grown man's face with the gun. The grown man decided it was better to make a run for it than endure another minute of humiliation, so he took off. Lucky for him, no shots were fired and he was able to tell the cops his terrible teen story.
