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   A 50-year-old Auburn woman faces a hate crime charge after she   
   allegedly attacked another woman on a King County Metro bus in   
   Kent for no apparent reason and used racial insults during the   
   attack.   
      
   Cheryl Ann Coleman, who is Black, is scheduled to be arraigned   
   on the charge Dec. 21 in the GA courtroom of the Maleng Regional   
   Justice Center in Kent.   
      
   Coleman reportedly attacked a white woman on Sept. 19 while both   
   were riding a Metro bus in Kent and called her “a white bitch”   
   several times, according to charging documents filed Dec. 9 by   
   the King County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office.   
      
   The white woman boarded a bus at about 1:27 p.m. on 104th Avenue   
   Southeast near Southeast 240th Street in Kent, on the way to the   
   Kent Station Transit Center.   
      
   Several minutes later, Coleman reportedly approached the woman   
   and called her by a racial slur, according to charging papers.   
   The woman told Coleman to get away from her. Coleman then raised   
   her right arm in the air with her fist clenched and aggressively   
   stepped into the compartment where the woman sat.   
      
   The woman stood up and tried to push Coleman away. Coleman then   
   responded by punching the woman in the face, knocking her back   
   down in her seat. Coleman then threw another punch that missed   
   the woman as a passenger tried to intervene.   
      
   Coleman next got off the bus near East Smith Street and State   
   Avenue North.   
      
   King County Sheriff’s Office deputies responded to reports of a   
   passenger assault on a bus and received a description of the   
   suspect.   
      
   A few minutes later, one of the deputies saw a woman matching   
   the description standing in the roadway smoking a cigarette. The   
   woman was later identified as Coleman. The deputy asked Coleman   
   what happened on the bus and she responded that a “white bitch”   
   tried hitting and kicking her for no apparent reason. She   
   admitted to punching the woman in the face while they were on   
   the bus.   
      
   Deputies used on-bus video and audio to help confirm details of   
   the attack that the victim had described.   
      
   After deputies arrested Coleman and placed her in a police   
   vehicle, she struck her forehead against the metal divider in   
   the car while screaming and swearing on the way to the county   
   jail. She called the Black deputy in the car another “Uncle   
   Tom,” and the reason why “white people are getting ahead.”   
      
   Hate crimes on the rise   
      
   The case marked the 56th hate crime in the county so far this   
   year, according to the King County Prosecuting Attorney’s   
   Office. In all of 2019, 38 hate crime cases were filed.   
      
   Deputy Prosecuting Attorney David Bannick, who focuses on hate   
   crimes, explained during a media interview Nov. 30 how   
   prosecutors decide whether to file a hate crime charge.   
      
   It has to be blatant for a case to be proved beyond a reasonable   
   doubt, he said.   
      
   “We look to people’s words,” Bannick said. “We look to people’s   
   social media. We look to their actions and we look to also how   
   the victim felt. We found we can get a lot of insight from   
   talking to victims.”   
      
   Before 2019, the hate crime felony charge was called malicious   
   harassment. That created confusion and was addressed by state   
   lawmakers in 2019. The crime is the same, it’s the name that   
   changed, Bannick said.   
      
   “Calling something what it is also provides transparency and   
   makes our system work better instead of using a confusing legal   
   term,” Bannick said.   
      
   https://www.kentreporter.com/news/black-woman-charged-with-hate-   
   crime-for-attacking-white-woman-on-bus-in-kent/   
       
      
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