2 men charged with hate crime in North Seattle beating

[The Straight Story]

2 men charged with hate crime in North Seattle beating

Seattle Times staff

The King County Prosecutor's Office has charged two men with malicious harassment — the state's hate-crime law — for allegedly robbing and beating a man in North Seattle last week.

Seattle police arrested Jason Roan, 28, Richard Miles, 46, March 23 after they allegedly attacked a 24-year-old man at a bus stop and stole his cellphone.

The two men allegedly approached the victim while he was waiting at a bus stop at North 85th Street and Aurora Avenue North to ask whether he could help them find crack cocaine. A fight erupted between the three men and Roan hit the victim with a glass bottle, according to charging documents. The victim said Roan yelled racially charged insults at him as the other two continued to beat him, police reports said.

Roan and Miles had left before police arrived shortly before 5 p.m. A police officer said the victim was bleeding and disoriented and became unconscious while police interviewed him. He was taken to Harborview Medical Center, where he was treated for serious cuts to his head.

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[gateley]

1. So glad they got the assholes.

It especially yanks at my heart when I hear such stories about Seattle. That's not how my city used to be. :-(

[The Straight Story]

2. Ya know, robbing someone is one thing

Beating them is a whole other animal. I just don't fucking get the brutality of some people in our society (or others really).

[gateley]

3. I know --

I don't understand how a person becomes that filled with hatred and disrespectful of life.

[Matariki]

4. Wow. That's a *really* public spot. Lots of traffic at that intersection.

And it was late afternoon. Oy.