Transgender Claims to be Victim of a Hate Crime — Then Police Check the Surveillance Tape

In the victim Olympics that so many people seem to be competing in over the last few years, there is nothing that tops being the victim of a “hate crime.” The thrill people get from being such a victim gets them so excited that they’re even willing to fake it. Apparently, some people are even willing to blame innocent kids if that’s what it takes

Investigators say the woman told them she was taunted by teens on Dec. 10 at the Tukwila International Bus Station. She claimed she used pepper spray later on the bus to protect herself. More than a week later, detectives have reviewed surveillance video from the bus and from a cellphone and say it was the woman who initiated the assault.

The King County Sheriff’s Office released video taken on board the Metro bus in Tukwila. It shows the woman approaching the teens at the back of the bus and pepper-spraying them. When she got off the bus, they did, too. The teens attacked her near the bus stop on Andover Park West near Midland Drive. The beating was caught on a cellphone camera while witnesses told the teens to stop. That night, one 14-year-old and two 16-year-olds were arrested for investigation of malicious harassment (a hate crime), and felony assault.

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