An 82-year-old woman was arrested Monday in Edmonds, Washington state for a hate crime and assault after she allegedly punched two women waving Donald Trump flags on the sidewalk the day before the general election.
“I approached her and I said ‘I, I want to know why you’re voting for Trump?’ That’s the only reason, I wanted to know. That’s the only thing. And, and, and umm and I said ‘because your brown skin’,” the 82-year-old suspect who has not been identified by authorities at this time said on a police body camera video.
One of the victims, Gina Powell, did not notice the attacker until she was in her face.
“Just shocked that just the presence of me and she made it very clear it was my skin color,” Powell said. “And then that’s when she shoved me, pushed me back and I said ‘don’t touch me’ and then not even a second, she just popped me right in my chin.”
The attacker admitted on body camera that she put her hand to the victim’s chin.
The second victim, Mary Jennings, also got a fist to the face.
“And she punched me, but she connected and you know, it slammed my jaw shut,” Jennings said.
Neither victims are injured Komo News reported.
Attacks by violent liberals on Trump supporters are not uncommon. On November 2 a Liberty Broadcast reporter was assaulted on camera in Bastrop, Texas by a group of elderly women waving Kamala Harris flags.
The reporter, a Hispanic, was also targeted due to her ethnicity.
“It’s sad that you’re Hispanic and you’re against yourself,” one of the Harris supporting women said in the video.
Another elderly woman told the reporter that she ‘is against her own rights’ for being a Hispanic Trump supporter, to which the reporter said that she has her own rights to vote and her own right to her opinion.
2 UNHINGED Harris supporters assaulted me today in Bastrop, Texas.
— The Liberty Broadcast (@TheLibertyBcast) November 3, 2024
These people are dangerous and violent. I was only there asking why there was so much support in such a conservative area.
Full video will be released tonight. pic.twitter.com/lEFxxoLcJi