Ja’Ronn Alex
This looks to be a Jesse Smollett situation.
But at least in this case, the supposed perpetrator actually exists.
A Colorado man attacked a TV news reporter while asking if he was a citizen and taunting him that this was life now in the US with Donald Trump’s second presidency looming, criminal court documents allege.The man, Patrick Thomas Egan, was arrested on 18 December in Grand Junction on suspicion of bias-motivated crimes, second-degree assault and harassment.
Patrick Thomas Egan
Patrick Thomas Egan ten minutes before tacking that gay guy
According to police, Egan, 39, followed the car of the KKCO/KJCT reporter Ja’Ronn Alex, who later told police he believed he was targeted because he is Pacific Islander.
An arrest affidavit in the case said Egan arrived by taxi, pulled up next to Alex – who was on an assignment at the time – at a stoplight and asked: “Are you even a US citizen? This is Trump’s America now! I’m a marine and I took an oath to protect this country from people like you!”The affidavit described Egan as tackling Alex and putting him in a headlock before Egan “began to strangle him”, causing co-workers to run out and help.
According to the documents, witnesses said Alex looked like he was struggling to breathe during the attack, which was caught on surveillance footage, the Associated Press reported.
Struggling to breathe, huh?
Get a bit of George Floyd in there.
That’s good marketing.
