Seattle Mayor has Sickening Response to Brutal Attack on 77-Year-Old Man
“This technology … could result in sensitive data being shared by ICE and putting our immigrant and refugee communities at risk.”
On April 19, a 77-year-old man stepped off a bus in downtown Seattle. He was bothering no one — simply walking home — when he was suddenly attacked by two men. They knocked him to the ground and beat him brutally.
What’s even more disturbing is what didn’t happen. No one intervened. Even after the attackers fled, no one stepped in to help him up or call for assistance.
According to Fox 13 Seattle, the man suffered a broken arm, a fractured knee, and a deep cut above his right eye that required stitches. He was hospitalized for at least a week.
One suspect, Ahmed Abdullah Osman, 29, has been arrested and charged with second-degree assault.
Fox 13 reported:
Osman was released from jail two days after the attack while police completed their investigation and submitted the case to prosecutors. Charges were filed last week, and he is scheduled to be arraigned on May 13. A bench warrant will be issued if he fails to appear in court.
His criminal history includes misdemeanor convictions for harassment (2023), first-degree attempted criminal trespass (2022), fourth-degree assault (2022), and second-degree criminal trespass (2021). He also has pending cases for fourth-degree assault and first-degree criminal trespass (2026), along with third-degree theft and fire alarm/equipment tampering (2026).
The second suspect remains at large.
Newly released footage shows two thugs in Seattle attacking and beating a 77-year-old man, while not a single person nearby helped him to even get up.
Abdullahi Osman (29) was later charged with second-degree assault. Police are still searching for the second suspect.
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— I Meme Therefore I Am 🇺🇸 (@ImMeme0) May 5, 2026
The city of Seattle recently installed a series of CCTV security cameras in high-crime neighborhoods. Police used footage recorded by those cameras to identify and apprehend the suspect.
In fact, the city was on schedule to install a second set of cameras in March, but that project was put on hold by Seattle’s new socialist mayor, Katie Wilson.
Wilson released a lengthy statement at the time, which read in part [emphasis added]:
For some people, seeing CCTV cameras in the neighborhood where they live or work or attend school makes them feel safer. For others, those same cameras make them feel less safe.
Those feelings are important, because our quality of life is partly about our feelings of safety or lack thereof, and our sense that our city is a welcoming place that is designed with consideration for our well-being and our humanity.
As difficult to watch as the video of the attack was, the clip of Wilson explaining the so-called “dangers” of the cameras was downright sickening.
She objected to the additional surveillance because “CCTV puts refugees at risk.”
This is legislation that will expand CCTV cameras, that could potentially be taken control of by the Trump administration. And this is legislation that could be opposed by immigrant’s rights groups, by civil liberties groups, and by members of the Color Caucus in the legislature. And I’ll quote from their letter: “This technology and technology similar to it has recently been in the news for its failure to be meaningfully and consistently secured leading to breaches that could result in sensitive data being shared by ICE and putting our immigrant and refugee communities at risk.”
Her priority is maintaining a safe space for illegal aliens and refugees. And if that interferes with the safety of vulnerable legal residents, including seniors, so be it.
None of this is a surprise. Often referred to as the Mamdani of the West during her campaign, Wilson never tried to hide her far-left world view. She once told supporters, “Yes, I am a socialist. … I’m fine with being called a socialist.”
Wilson’s indifference to the well-being of an elderly city resident reveals something about her character. Last week, she laughed at the prospect of wealthy taxpayers fleeing the city. “Bye” she said with a big grin on her face.
Seattle was already a city in decline before Wilson took office. Something tells me it’s about to get a lot worse.
🚨BREAKING: Open Socialist Katie Wilson takes office as Seattle, Washington's next Mayor.
At 43 years old, she relies on her parents for financial support and has no professional accomplishments. She did not start earning a regular income until her late 30s. pic.twitter.com/04e8BPj2az
— The Patriot Oasis™ (@ThePatriotOasis) January 2, 2026
Socialist Seattle mayor @wilsonformayor was just sworn into office & she & her handlers are already trying to silence journalists critical of welfare fraud. Her handlers removed @choeshow's microphone & tried ejecting him from City Hall. cc: @AAGDhillon pic.twitter.com/GJzGFz6LGr
— Andy Ngo (@MrAndyNgo) January 3, 2026
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Who in their right mind would help? Who wants the Daniel Penny treatment?
The only fallacy in your statement is that it presupposes that there is a Daniel Penny-type, selfless and courageous good Samaritan present, in Seattle, who is only dissuaded from intervening, by Daniel Penny’s prosecution and ordeal.
I highly doubt that, given Seattle’s political composition.
They are there, but in my case I moved away 9 years ago.
True but that doesn’t explain the fact no one stepped in to help after the attackers had fled.
The kicker is that the attackers had already fled. Even then, no one helped. him.
Seattle is such a trash city. A true American riches to rags story.
Not to let the natives off the hook entirely but I wonder if those that saw him on the ground after just thought it was another performative homeless man and left him alone for that reason.
If you’ve been to Seattle you know that scene is quite common.
That was my thought as well when viewing the video. Some dude apparently passed out/laying on the sidewalk wouldn’t be unusual and over time a certain callousness about it would develop.
Socialist is not an accurate description of the Mayor. A much better description is utterly evil elitist.
A much better description still is dumb bitch. This fool is giving the mayors of Chicago and NYC a run for their money in the category of most stupid and destructive US mayor.
Yes, she is dumb but also an utterly evil rich elitist. Just being dumb is not uncommon for politicians. It is amazing how so many entitled rich leftists are so downright mean and ruthless.
“Clueless” and “ignorant” may be more apt.
“Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.”
Hanlon’s Razor
Seattle will go as NY City will, down the tubes.
But the elite will collect tax money by the millions.
Tax money, and then grab the real estate for pennies on the dollar.
No help from Wilson, but Redmond police arrested Jes’Sean Tyrell Elion at about 4:30 p.m. Wednesday after a witness called to report she recognized him from news coverage of the incident.
Seattle is a waste area. I won’t go near the downtown. Our oldest daughter, son in law and grandkids live in W Seattle above Alki Beach. They don’t even go near downtown. Only the baseball and football stadiums. No one goes to any of the restaurants left downtown at night. What a waste and f a beautiful area.
Good luck Seattle. You did this to yourself.
Typical communist/Islamofascist Dhimmi-crat apparatchik callousness, stupidity, moral bankruptcy and evil.
Nothing new, under the Sun.
If Wilson is beaten to within an inch of her miserable life, by an Islamofascist/Muslim supremacist thug, it would be karmic/Divine justice.
Let’s see what kind of “social justice” tune this vile twit sings, then, about CCTV cameras.
I remember hearing once that a liberal is a conservative who hasn’t been mugged.
She wouldn’t change her mind. She knows deep inside that as a white person she deserver the beaten.
^^^^this^^^^
This coddled, country club communist, Wilson, is exceptionally ugly — within, and without.
She resembles Popeye’s girlfriend, Olive Oyl. So that’s her name now.
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1) If the courts do not “forget” to issue a bench warrant for Abdullahi Osman and Jes’Sean Tyrell Elion , almost surely the Seattle Police will be instructed to give their apprehension the lowest possible priority.
2) If by some mischance either of them is captured and tried, the verdict of “not guilty” is already written.
3) Not only those with assets but also the elderly and handicapped should leave Seattle both for safety reasons and because they may be targeted by the legal system.
Subotai Bahadur
They are not refugees they are deportables.
The DOJ should investigate this as a hate crime.
Is there any indication that the attack was motivated by the victim’s perceived race, color, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, or disability? Or are you just guessing? DOJ would have no basis on which to investigate it without some grounds for believing that it is so.
Yes. I agree. It should be based on the actual evidence. That’s the way it’s supposed to work. But what do you think would happen if two White guys beat up an elderly Black gentleman and then the Black community saw the video and got up in arms about it? Even if there was absolutely no evidence to show racial animus, you can bet that the authorities would investigate the hell out of it as a hate crime.
You can’t know until they investigate.
You don’t investigate until there’s some indication that there’s something to investigate. Otherwise it’s just a fishing expedition.
Two black men attacking a white man without warning for no apparent reason (no prior connection, no interaction, no robbery) while ignoring the black people, including one in a wheelchair, who come by a minute later seems like pretty good prima facie evidence.
Flip it: Two white men jump a black one from behind as the latter walks home from work. FBI: “We cannot investigate this until we have a reason to investigate.”
While I am disgusted by the actions, I feel (that’s right, feelings) we are surveilled far too much. If you leave your house, you will be subject to license plate readers, CCTV cameras, Ring-type cameras, traffic cameras, cell phone tracking, in some areas facial-recognition tracking, etc. I realize that our reasons for objecting to this differ, but there is some convergence with regard to distaste of the methods. And don’t say if you are doing nothing wrong, I have nothing to worry about. Yes, I do–I don’t get to decide what constitutes doing something wrong.
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you might not have what it takes to decide whats right and wrong but I do as do others
My point is not about morality; it’s about perception. I don’t feel that carrying a firearm is wrong but someone in authority may, and they may use video evidence against me. I don’t feel that using gasoline to drive as much as I want is wrong, but someone else may. I didn’t mention surveillance by one’s own automobile, but we are at the point where your vehicle may refuse to start or stop on its own if it detects that you are inattentive, angry, or sleepy (or decides that you are impaired). Those aren’t moral judgments, but rather authoritarian ones.
you are correct that we are surveilled everywheres
but I do think it comes down to or back to morality
then it comes down to what the voters will accept
which is why in many places they stopped using those red light cameras
but also look at places like chiraq that moralized on how its wrong to have those shot spotters for the continued woke agenda
so when they use that video evidence against us..and they will,, that comes down to ,,does that authority think you have the moral right to protect yourself
“does that authority think you have the moral right to protect yourself”
The answer to this, especially in my state is a big, fat NO. We have specifically been told that self-help is discouraged–the government will take care of us.
which is part o why I drive a 40 year old pickup truck. I is so “retro none o that junk can even BE installed. Suits me just well. I also returns 37 miles per gallon, weighs only 2600 pounds, but, with trailer can easily haul 3000 pounds payload. Match that with anything less than 20 years old? Not gonna happen. You give me one o thse new jokes they call “tvicks” I’ll just sell it. I won’t drive it. I ghave tangled with this new junk repairing them when others own them. I KNOW what I don’t want to do at the side o the road at oh dark thirty in the rain.
I agree. What’s interesting is that the Left largely ignored the proliferation of surveillance devices in our cities until they discovered how they might be used against certain protected classes. No thought for our rights to keep our whereabouts to ourselves, but every consideration for politically favored (and often non-citizen) persons. An entirely warped perspective.
Refugee’s as recognized by law have distinctive, if limited, legal rights to remain in country. Statutory rights.
Illegal aliens have almost no statutory rights and no rights to remain in country outside of an administrative judicial system that itself was a huge mistake.
“Refugee” is the new slow-witted talking point of Democrats.
The problem with universal surveillance is that it will eventually be used to hunt us. It’s one of those “we have to do this, but it will come back to haunt us” things.
I sure hope no one does to them what they are doing to america
Gee. It’s as if they support violent scumbags.
But then leftists always do.
Put a democrat in the mayor’s office and you get democrat governance. Maybe she will be mugged sometime.
Thugs: “Leave her alone. She’s a crook, like us!”
Nah. She personifies the joke about sharks showing professional courtesy to the lawyer who fell overboard. Seattle is doomed.
I think it was Oakland. CA’s mayor that this did happpen to. Got carjacked, I believe.
The only comforting thought I can conjure in my imagination is an army of Paul Kerseys rising up.
Hurry up, TEXIT – get us out of the whorehouse our Old America has become.
I really. Wonder what voters found the least bit attractive electing such a vile, stupid POS like her to run the City. Of course, the same thing can be said of the many leftist politicians across the country. Time to create a geographic separation in this country and put all the leftists in one section and us normal people in the other. Of course we’d need to build a high fence to keep the leftists out when the chaos made their life unbearable.
It’s called “city limits.” The city elections are determined by ‘community organizers’ which are usually racial voting blocs.
I truly hope the idiot Mayor gets to endure a “full Seattle experience” some time soon.
In my opinion, the ONLY people who would feel “less safe” with those cameras are people who are criminals who plan on committing crimes !
I believe this Mayor is uneducated and not very bright. How did she get elected ?
Criminals make me feel “less safe”. So does the prospect of the universal surveillance state. If the latter doesn’t make you feel “less safe” you haven’t been paying attention to what China has been doing. Or you foolishly believe it couldn’t happen here.
Sickening people usually do sickening things. The Mayor is a good example of that.
The problem is the morons that vote trash like this woman into office.
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