Stabbing suspect: I was responding to anti-police graffiti (WA)
AUGUST 17, 2016 1:59 PM
BY AMELIA DICKSON
... “This black-and-white couple was simply expressing their love for one another,” <Deputy Prosecutor Joseph Wheeler> added ...
Police responded to downtown Olympia on Tuesday night after receiving reports that a black man had been stabbed, and a white man — later identified as Rowe — was unconscious. Based on the Rowe’s white supremacist tattoos — reading “skinhead,” “white power” and “hooligan,” and featuring a Confederate flag — officers believed the altercation may have been racially motivated ...
The male victim said Rowe didn’t say anything to him during the attack.
When police talked to Rowe, he said that he was part of a white supremacist group, and that he had come downtown in reaction to the anti-police graffiti put up Sunday night. He said he had taken a “blood oath” to fight on the street ...
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