Man assaults Uwajimaya worker over face covering requirement, returns with hatchet

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RENTON, Wash. — Renton police say a man who walked into Uwajimaya without a face covering Monday got upset when he was asked to comply with the company’s mask policy. The man also attempted to shoplift, assaulted a worker, threatened to “return and shoot everyone” and came back the next day armed with a hatchet.

“Was in our parking lot waving a machete at people and making threatening statements,” said Uwajimaya President and CEO Denise Moriguchi in an interview with KIRO 7. “We haven’t had much pushback. I think people understand it’s for their safety and it’s for everyone else’s safety.”

Renton police said the man had been staying at the nearby Red Lion Hotel that King County had recently converted into a temporary homeless shelter to meet social distancing requirements in shelters elsewhere. The temporary shelter houses for more than 200 people who are not infected with COVID-19.

The City of Renton said the temporary shelter has tripled its homeless population and led to a spike in fire and police calls at and around the hotel. Shoplifting reports in the area have more than tripled this year, compared to last year.

The City of Renton said the shelter has “overwhelmed our police and fire departments, disrupted nearby businesses and severely taxed the already limited resources of local human services providers,” and called on King County to honor its promise to remove the shelter after 90 days by July 9

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‘Hundreds of millions’ in fraudulent jobless benefits paid

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OLYMPIA, Wash. – Impostors have used the stolen information of tens of thousands of people in the state to fraudulently receive hundreds of millions of dollars in unemployment benefits, the head of Washington’s Employment Security Department said Thursday.

Commissioner Suzi LeVine said that the state is currently working with federal law enforcement, financial institutions and the U.S. Department of Labor to investigate the fraud and to try and recover the money paid out during the coronavirus crisis.

The New York Times and Seattle Times have previously reported that a U.S. Secret Service alert issued last week identified Washington as the top target so far of a Nigerian fraud ring seeking to commit large-scale fraud against state unemployment insurance programs. LeVine said she couldn’t speak to the details of the investigation, but said that the Secret Service alert wasn’t directly shared with her, but that the agency received it through other sources.

BOOKER on VIRUS: Feds Must ‘Move People Out of Detention Centers,’ End ‘Detention of Immigrants’.

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>Booker: release the Illegals, we need their VOTE

Sen. Cory Booker recently introduced a bill that would release illegal immigrants from federal detention centers during the Coronavirus pandemic; saying it’s “really a matter of life and death.”

“Democrats, however, are taking the opposite approach. Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., and Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., have introduced a bill that would release immigrants in detention into the country, and halt any immigration enforcement against anyone not deemed a ‘significant’ threat to public safety,” reports Fox New