by Cleve R. Wootson

March 12, 2017

 

The disturbance at the Middle Eastern restaurant was bizarre at first, but within minutes it morphed into a violent, one-sided assault.

Jason Kendall was walking down State Street about 3 p.m. Saturday when he saw a woman standing inside Al Aqsa Restaurant in Salem, Oregon, according to Fox affiliate KPTV. The Mediterranean food joint is a few blocks from the state Capitol and Willamette University.

Kendall said he thought the woman was being held hostage, because “of the type of shirt she was wearing,” the news station reported. He would later tell police that holding women hostage was “what Arabs do.”

So he walked into the restaurant and told the woman that she was “free to leave,” according to KPTV.

 

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