See Something (A Racist Attack in Belltown)? Say Something!

HelpKey.jpgThere's a 36-year-old senior surgical resident with the University of Washington who's in the hospital as a patient this week. Police are still looking for his assailants. If you were wandering around Belltown at 2 a.m. on Sunday morning and remember seeing a fight, or a group of meatheads running away from one, call the Seattle Police Department's Homicide and Assault unit at 206-684-5550.

The way we read it, one group--the Korean victim, his girlfriend, and four friends--had left the Umi Sake House, and were walking down 3rd Avenue, at Cedar Street, when another group of white men started hassling them and called out a racial slur. The victim yelled back, and then one of the men punched him. Because this was not a Hollywood movie, that's all it took for the victim to be knocked backwards onto the sidewalk, strike his head, and later have to undergo surgeries to remove the pressure on his brain.

As usual, one of the P-I's Sound Off-ers has words of wisdom regarding the incident: "One reason I never go out in Belltown is because you have to make a concerted effort to AVOID fights. Nothing but a bunch of meatheads in that part of town."

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Being a parent and a chicken-shit, if a bunch of meatheads started calling me names I'd probably hustle in the opposite direction with nary a peep.

This guy didn't deserve this (even if he did talk shit too) and it pisses me off and makes me sad that there are so many violent, stupid, angry people in the world.

And here's a word on behalf of Belltown. This didn't happen because of Belltown, it happened because people were stupid and drunk.

I'm on the sidewalks of Belltown most nights, often quite late. Sure, I have to make my way around drunks and drug dealers, but they're almost like urban furniture. I don't yell back at people, and nobody has ever tried to do more than sell me a copy of Real Change.

I get the impression the people responsible were tourists because its hard to believe any Seattle natives would get worked up at the sight of (gasp)a couple of Asians.

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