Charlie Hebdo Redux: Sources of the hyper-violence that Seattle has turned a blind eye to

The following photographs only appeared in The Seattle Times blogspot (January 1, 2015) and never in the print edition.   Hence, they have been seen by few people.

The Seattle Weekly and The Stranger refused to even mention what happened.  Of the local television stations, only KIRO-TV appears to have covered it in detail.

(In fact, the story never appeared in the print edition, it appears).


Posted by Claudia Rowe

The scene of a stabbing at a 76 gas station in Seattle’s Georgetown neighborhood.

  

Glasses are left sitting on a newspaper at a 76 station after a gas-station attendant was stabbed in an apparent robbery.

http://blogs.seattletimes.com/today/2015/01/stabbing-robbery-georgetown/

from the P.I.:

Georgetown robbery, stabbing suspects in jail

Posted on January 8, 2015 | By Lynsi Burton

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Two men remain in King County Jail after being arrested in connection with a robbery and assault that partially blinded a Georgetown gas station clerk.

The clerk remains in intensive care at Harborview Medical Center and is now blind in his right eye, according to probable cause documents.

A 47-year-old and a 58-year-old were arrested in Seattle on Tuesday and Wednesday for investigation of robbery and assault.

The incident occurred about 9 p.m. at a 76 station in the 500 block of South Michigan Street, reports say.

Police say the two men entered the store and the 58-year-old vaulted over the checkout counter and stabbed the clerk repeatedly in his arms, face, eye and chest. As the victim tried to crawl away, the assailant continued to stab him in the upper back.

Meanwhile, police believe the 47-year-old ripped the cash drawer from the register while the man with the knife sat on top of the clerk to hold him down.

Medics found the clerk with stab wounds to his head, face, eye, arms, chest and back. He was rushed into surgery in critical condition.

Police found the 47-year-old man midday Tuesday in the 2700 block of East Madison Street. He reportedly confessed to the assault and robbery while being interviewed by detectives, according to the probable cause reports.

The 58-year-old was arrested Wednesday evening at the Orion Motel in the 12000 block of Aurora Avenue North. He also reportedly confessed to the crime and “showed no remorse,” reports say.

The 58-year-old is held on $1 million bail, while the bail hearing for the 47-year-old is set to occur Friday.

No charges have yet been filed.

The P.I. follow-up story on 1/13/2015 states the man was completely blinded by the stabbings:  lost one eye and was blinded in the other.  Yet Seattle refuses to talk about this horrific tragedy.  We owe this man a public apology for the trauma he went through as well as the silence, tantamount to denial, from the community at large.  No public official to date has commented on what happened. 

 The victim was a man of color (but not black).  His assailants were black (no media has
mentioned this).

What television station would have the b---- and go to the local Urban League or NAACP and say, " Recently there have been a number of very violent attacks by black men on Asians.  Do you think there is anything you can do to reduce the violence (perpetuated by members of your community)?"

If the victim had been black, and the assailant(s) of another race, the African-American community would, I believe, be up in arms decrying racist brutality.

SEE ALSO

http://www.kirotv.com/news/news/two-men-jailed-after-brutal-attack-georgetown-gas-/njjr3/

The rest of our local (and national) media blanked out on this one, as they have so many others in the past.