Man accused of attacking TV reporter, saying 'This is Trump's America now'

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Source: Scripps News/AP

Posted 1 hour and 40 minutes ago


A Colorado man is facing possible bias-motivated charges for allegedly attacking a television news reporter after demanding to know whether he was a citizen, saying “This is Trump’s America now," according to court documents.

Patrick Thomas Egan, 39, was arrested Dec. 18 in Grand Junction, Colorado, after police say he followed KKCO/KJCT reporter Ja'Ronn Alex's vehicle for around 40 miles from the Delta area. Alex told police that he believed he had been followed and attacked because he is Pacific Islander.

After arriving in Grand Junction, Egan, who was driving a taxi, pulled up next to Alex at a stoplight and, according to an arrest affidavit, said something to the effect of: “Are you even a U.S. citizen? This is Trump's America now! I'm a Marine and I took an oath to protect this country from people like you!”

Alex, who had been out reporting, then drove back to his news station in the city. After he got out of his vehicle, Egan chased Alex as he ran toward the station's door and demanded to see his identification, according to the document laying out police’s evidence in the case. Egan then tackled Alex, put him in a headlock and “began to strangle him,” the affidavit said. Coworkers who ran out to help and witnesses told police that Alex appeared to be losing his ability to breathe during the attack, which was partially captured on surveillance video, according to the document. According to the station's website, Alex is a native of Detroit. KKCO/KJCT reported that he was driving a news vehicle at the time.

Read more: https://www.scrippsnews.com/us-news/crime/man-accused-of-attacking-tv-reporter-saying-this-is-trumps-america-now

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There is going to be A LOT more of this. The floodgates have been opened. These foaming-at-the-mouth rabid dogs can't parse anything that Musk says about "H1B" and other nonsensical "code talk" for "favored minorities", because THIS is the only thing that scum American racists "see" -



W. E. B. Du Bois said it over 120 years ago (and it applies today in the 21st century) -

"The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color-line—the relation of the darker to the lighter races of men in Asia and Africa, in America and the islands of the sea".