In Seattle’s Ballard neighborhood this Wednesday, a teen girl tried to steal a sign that Republican U.S. Congressional Candidate Craig Keller was holding, prompting him to kick the girl and push her onto the street. When two of her friends tried to take the sign as well, Keller ran after them, KIRO7 reports.
“As soon as I started running, he grabbed my ankle. He pulled me to the ground, he pulled down my pants, like a good way down, and I just kept grabbing, so I kicked him, I tried kicking him off,” 14-year-old Mortikye Aylward, said.
When another teen stomped on the sign, Keller pushed him, saying, "It's not your property."
The teen who initially tried to steal the sign, 14-year-old Dean Aocina, was then grabbed by a man in a blue shirt and MAGA hat, who picked him up and slammed him to the ground.
“I didn’t even see him until he had wrapped his arms around me,” Aocina said.
“Dude what the hell!” people shout in the video. “Beat up a f***ing kid?” someone else is heard shouting.
According to the teens, they were "upset in the moment" when they tried to take the sign.
“I’m not excusing what I did,” Aylward said. “I think that I shouldn’t have done it. I think it’s morally kind of stupid,” he said.
“There are some bad people in office but that just really disgusted me... acting so violently.,” Aylward said.
