Seattle’s socialist Mayor Katie Wilson is facing fierce blowback on social media after a 77-year-old man was seen on video being beaten by two individuals in a crime that was captured by closed-circuit television cameras, a tool that Wilson has denounced in the past as something that makes the community feel unsafe and “vulnerable.”
The elderly man was walking down the street in downtown Seattle last month when two men walking by him stopped, without any provocation, shoved him to the ground and beat him, KOMO News reported.
Ahmed Abdullahi Osman, 29, was later arrested and charged with second-degree assault, and police are looking for the second suspect. Osman was reportedly booked into jail the night of the assault and then released back onto the streets before a bail hearing.
“Turning on more cameras won’t magically make our neighborhoods safer, but it will certainly make our neighborhoods more vulnerable,” Wilson said in 2025 after Seattle City Council’s approval of expanding the Real Time Crime Center (RTCC) CCTV pilot program, the program used to capture the video of this specific crime, according to KOMO News.
Conservatives on social media quickly pointed to Wilson’s policies, which have been much maligned as “soft on crime,” as a contributing factor, as well as her previous comments on CCTV.
“They elected a SOCIALIST,” Heritage Foundation senior fellow Mike Gonzalez posted on X. “What did they think would happen?”
“Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson remains clueless on the job,” journalist Jonathan Choe posted on X. “So she’s allowing far-left activists to make public safety decisions for the city.”
“Go ahead and explain the ‘sOCiONoMic rOoT cAusES’ of this heinous crime,” Manhattan Institute fellow Rafael A. Mangual posted on X.
“Ahmed Abdullah Osman beat a 77-year-old in Seattle,” conservative influencer account End Wokeness posted on X in a clip that has been viewed over a million times. “Police ID’d him thanks to street video cameras. Mayor Wilson: ‘CCTV puts refugees at risk.’” --->READ MORE HERE
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Both suspects are facing assault charges after a random attack was captured on surveillance video in downtown Seattle.
A King County court file charges against one of two suspects in a random attack April 19 that left a 77-year-old man hospitalized with broken bones and head trauma.
The first suspect, 29-year-old Ahmed Abdullahi Osman, has been charged for second-degree assault for the attack. Osman was released, according to the charging documents, but is now wanted on a $200,000 King County Superior Court warrant.
Redmond police arrested the second suspect, 27-year-old Jessean Tyrell Elion, on Monday afternoon. Officers responded to report of a man matching the assault suspect's description. The caller reported recognizing the man from news coverage that included the surveillance footage of the attack.
Police said Elion also had a limp, seemed to be wearing the same shoes and had similar facial features, size and build, all of which matched descriptions from witnesses of the assault.
Redmond alerted Seattle police, who, after talking with Elion, took him into custody and booked him into the King County Jail.
He appeared in court for the first time Tuesday, where a judge found probable cause for second-degree assault and set his bail at $100,000.
“The allegations of an attack on a stranger is very serious,” the judge said in court on Tuesday. While the second suspect has not yet been charged in court, KING 5 is naming both suspects due to their previous criminal history and in the interest of public safety.
Editor's note: This story has been updated to reflect how Elion was arrested on Monday. A previous version of the article included details from a 2025 arrest.
The attack
On April 19, Seattle Police Department officers responded to reports of an assault near Third Avenue and Pine Street, where they found an elderly man bleeding from a head injury and suffering a broken arm and knee. --->READ MORE HERE
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