Black Lives Matter protestor charged with anti-Asian hate crimes in USA

A Black Lives Matter (BLM) protestor in Seattle, who was additionally part of CHAZ (Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone), has been charged with hate crimes towards Asian American girls. The Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone was a Left-wing occupation of a six-block space in Seattle in an effort to set up a “socialist utopia”.
According to a neighborhood Seattle information outlet, BLM activists and organizers within the space did have a recollection of the suspect, Christopher Hamner. One describes his “creepy stares”, one other says that his actions appeared “out of left field”.
Hamner was arrested final month for 3 counts of malicious harassment towards three completely different Asian-American girls. According to court docket paperwork, on March sixteenth, Pamela Cole and her two kids have been driving when Hamner, aged 51, approached her automobile, which was stopped at a site visitors gentle. He began strolling in the direction of her automobile and yelled at her, utilizing express profanity and anti-Asian hate speech.
“He just opens his door and starts yelling at me. ‘F’ you, you Asian ‘B’. ‘F’ you kind of thing,” Pamela Cole mentioned. “And then he pulls in the parking lot and comes charging at us.”
According to investigators, Hamner dedicated related anti-Asian harassment to 2 different girls simply days later.
Last summer time, through the Geroge Floyd protests/riots, Christopher Hamner was a particularly lively BLM activist, typically seen in BLM protests. According to Hamner’s social media actions, he was additionally a part of the anarchist Left-wing CHAZ, which was a police-free autonomous zone managed by BLM activists and Antifa.
He recorded a video of himself within the zone the place he was holding an anti-Donald Trump and anti-police signal. His social media accounts are crammed with posts expressing hatred of Trump and Republicans. Hamner can also be a loyal supporter of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris in addition to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and “progressive” causes. He had even uploaded a number of posts condemning anti-Asian hate crimes and white supremacy. 
When knowledgeable about his BLM previous, Pamela Cole mentioned, “Of course it strikes me as hypocritical, but I wasn’t surprised to be completely honest, I wasn’t shocked about it.”
BLM leaders from final yr’s wave of protests tried to distance themselves from Hamner, saying that he all the time gave the impression to be on the perimeter.
Christopher Hamner is presently in custody, with a court docket date tomorrow. However, Pamela Cole doesn’t suppose that jail will remedy Hamner’s points.
“At the end of the day if he goes to jail, he still comes out as a racist full of hate,” Cole mentioned. “Nothing’s changed. He didn’t learn anything. There was no rehab in it so to me it’s pointless.”
King County prosecutors charged the 51-year-old with a felony hate crime for focusing on a number of Asian victims on two separate events in March. Currently he’s being held on the King County Correctional Facility for the felony hate crime cost plus three extra counts of malicious harassment, and his bail  is about at $75,000.
In February, A Black Lives Matter chief was arrested in reference to the vandalism of an Abraham Lincoln statue in Boise, Idaho.