Man and Woman Launch Vicious Attack on Seattle Teen for Wearing MAGA Hat in Public
Wearing a “Make America Great Again” hat in Seattle can be dangerous, as one Illinois teenager is sharing with the world.
Ashton Hess, who was vacationing with his family in Seattle recently, has released a video showing how he was harassed for wearing one of the trademark red hats worn by supporters of President Donald Trump.
Hess said that he was with his family waiting for a ride outside the Starbucks Reserve Roastery when the incident occurred, Fox News reported.
“My hat was knocked on the ground and picked up by the girl you see at the beginning of the video. She threw the hat to the man with green hair and he took off with it. He spat on it and then threw it into the street. He continued to curse at and flip off my family,” Hess wrote on his YouTube account, where he posted the video.
(This video contains some language.)
“I did absolutely nothing to provoke anyone around, and was completely blind sided when I was hit. He was quick to run away after my dad, my brother, and I started walking after him. The left doesn’t care about who you are (or) what you stand for. The left only knows that you must be evil,” he wrote.
In the video, Hess tells the man he said spat on his hat, “That’s my property dude. Come on.”
The man then told Hess to “get the f— out (of) this city.”
Hess, who is from Illinois, summarized the incident in an interview with station KIRO.
“This guy just runs up and hits me in the head, knocking my hat off … he took off down the street with it, spit on it and threw it in the street, and he turned around and started cursing at me for no reason,” Hess said.
Hess said there have been times when the hat attracts glares, but he said he “never expected something like to be hit in the head over a hat I was wearing.”
“I want to expose the left for what they do … We have a First Amendment right to believe in whatever we want, and when that stuff gets out about the left side doing things like that, I do think it hurts them more than it helps them,” Hess said.
Hess and his family followed up with an interview with The Daily Wire.
“I was angry that this guy thought he had the right to attack our son because he disagreed with the text on his hat,” The Daily Wire quoted the teenager’s parents as saying. “Everyone is entitled to their own opinion; if you disagree with that opinion, you’re not free to be aggressive.”
The Daily Wire identified the man who harassed Hess as Eddie Jackson. Several tweets from a green-haired man who said he is “non-binary” show him boasting of the incident.
Just ripped a MAGA hat off some white kid and spit all over it n threw it in traffic n the whole time his mom n him just yelling “OMG THAT GUY TOOK MY HAT”and starting to tear up
— ✯ sweethan ✯ (@3thanshane) July 19, 2018
The real threat of white nationalism in our country? Rich white 17 year olds with MAGA hats
— ✯ sweethan ✯ (@3thanshane) July 19, 2018
MAGA hats stand for a platform and president who deports children and families, wants DEATH and violent conversion for trans people, actively opposes the LGBTQ community, oppresses marginalized people, and serves as a modern platform for hate. It’s message is purely in hate
— ✯ sweethan ✯ (@3thanshane) July 20, 2018
Hess, 17, said he has known the left is intolerant ever since he wore a pro-NRA hat to a left-wing march to see what happened.
“I’ve been exposed to the craziness of the left already,” Hess said. “This was just the second thing that has occurred that’s showed me really how intolerant and unaccepting the left is.”
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