42 year old Washington man punches 11 year old boy in the face during school field trip
A Bellingham child was injured in an alleged hate crime as a group of students returned from a field trip Wednesday afternoon in downtown Bellingham, police and school officials said.
The Whatcom Middle School sixth-grader, whose name was not released, was punched in the face by an assailant who apparently targeted the boy because of his race.
Bellingham Police spokeswoman Megan Peters told The Herald that the attack happened as the students were walking past the police station at 505 Grand Ave. The attack was captured on video camera at the police station, according to the probable cause statement.
“School staff witnessed the assault, intervened, and summoned law enforcement by both calling (911) and coming to the front door of (the police station). Staff also secured the child and rushed him away from the assailant,” Peters told The Herald in an email.
Darragh praised everyone who stepped in to protect the boy, who is Black.
Court documents said that the students were walking north on Grand Avenue near the police station when Bittner approached from the street and slipped into step with the group.
Bittner pushed a student and then said, “Are you gonna talk to a white man like that?” Peters told The Herald. Then Bittner punched the boy in the face.
Police arrested Bittner a few blocks away, according to court documents.
After he was handcuffed, Bittner was placed in a patrol car, where he made additional racial slurs, according to Peters and court documents.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 31 | July 17, 2025 10:07 PM
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Racist cunt. Hope they throw him in lockup with lots of large, angry black men who he mouths off to.
by Anonymous | reply 1 | June 15, 2024 5:04 PM
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What happens on the field trip is supposed to stay on the field trip.
by Anonymous | reply 2 | June 15, 2024 5:05 PM
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What a coward.
A 42 year old man punching an 11 year old boy in the face.
And he's an idiot too, for doing it right in front of a police station.
by Anonymous | reply 3 | June 15, 2024 5:05 PM
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[quote]Bittner pushed a student and then said, “Are you gonna talk to a white man like that?”
What century is this?!
by Anonymous | reply 4 | June 15, 2024 5:06 PM
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When I read hate crime I thought it might have been a gay kid.
I remember being scared of being picked on when I was a kid for that
by Anonymous | reply 5 | June 15, 2024 5:21 PM
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I heard the mother asked for an after-birth abortion.
by Anonymous | reply 6 | June 15, 2024 5:21 PM
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[quote] I heard the mother asked for an after-birth abortion.
In addition to prison?
by Anonymous | reply 8 | June 15, 2024 6:00 PM
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I will pardon him and appoint him to the Supreme Court. MAGA
by Anonymous | reply 9 | June 15, 2024 6:07 PM
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Is the Police Chief a lesbian?
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 10 | June 16, 2024 7:22 PM
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We need a mugshot to determine if he's cagemeat worty of Momma's Mussy.
by Anonymous | reply 11 | June 16, 2024 7:29 PM
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Unfunny R11.
Fuck this nasty MAGA cunt, may he go straight to a psychiatric facility and be forced to stay there for at least two years.
by Anonymous | reply 12 | June 23, 2024 8:15 PM
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As soon as it's about race everybody reacts like it's ten times worse than if it was just a same-color crime. Not sure why that is.
by Anonymous | reply 13 | June 23, 2024 8:20 PM
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[quote] As soon as it's about race everybody reacts like it's ten times worse than if it was just a same-color crime. Not sure why that is.
Because it WAS about race you fucking moron.
You don't see old white guys punching little white kids on a school field trip, do you?
The only reason he did it to this kid was BECAUSE of his race.
I know you're trolling, but your comment is so fucking stupid - even for a troll.
by Anonymous | reply 14 | June 23, 2024 8:31 PM
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^^^^
Because it WASN'T a white kid punched by a white aggressor you dumbshit.
And the assailant MADE A POINT of bringing ethnicity into the table, not only by targeting the non-white child but by telling him he couldn't talk to a WHITE person like that.
We,sane people know that he's clearly a KKK sympathizer and a Trumper.
by Anonymous | reply 15 | June 23, 2024 8:34 PM
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I clearly meant troll R13, not you R14.
by Anonymous | reply 16 | June 23, 2024 8:35 PM
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To make it to 42 and have beef with an 11 year old. I'd k!ll myself.
by Anonymous | reply 17 | June 23, 2024 8:45 PM
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R11 not a mugshot, but there's courtroom pics of him at this link. He's the textbook definition of AWG.
He'd still be considered fuckable by most DLers, seeing as how he's: male, white, under 45-50 years old, not obese, and has a pulse (although I'm not certain about that last one).
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 18 | June 23, 2024 9:28 PM
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What an asshole.
Just look at that big smile on his face, like he's so proud of himself.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 19 | June 23, 2024 9:32 PM
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Oh was Defacto in DC? Maybe he was there to take quaint photos of decaying landmarks.
by Anonymous | reply 20 | June 23, 2024 9:39 PM
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Interview with the victim… and the victim’s dad is a hottie.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 21 | June 23, 2024 9:53 PM
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According to some comments I saw on social media, the guy is homeless and originally from California.
[quote]And he's an idiot too, for doing it right in front of a police station.
If the part about him being homeless is true, there's a possibility he commited the crime with the goal of getting "three hots and a cot." Either that, or he's just mentally ill (and/or on drugs).
Not that any of those make his actions any less awful, obviously.
by Anonymous | reply 22 | June 23, 2024 10:40 PM
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𝐏𝐫𝐨=𝐏𝐚𝐥𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐮𝐠𝐬 𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐉𝐞𝐰𝐢𝐬𝐡 𝐟𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐲 𝐚𝐭 𝟓𝐭𝐡 𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐝𝐞 𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐝𝐮𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧
A Jewish mom and her husband were attacked and beaten at a Brooklyn elementary school graduation by an Arabic-speaking family — who taunted them with shouts of “Free Palestine!” “Gaza is Ours!” and “Death to Israel!” she told The Post.
The mayhem erupted at PS 682 in Gravesend just after the school’s fifth-grade graduation — which was themed, ironically, “All you need is love.”
Instead, the Jewish woman’s husband was thrown to the ground by members of the other family. One man put him in a chokehold, he said. Others grabbed his legs as they kicked and punched him. One woman repeatedly whacked him with the sharp heel of a black stiletto, the mom told police.
The Post is withholding the couple’s last names to protect their children’s privacy and safety.
The graduation ceremony itself was uneventful, but Lana’s mother was upset when one student marched across the stage wearing his graduate cap marked “Free Palestine” and waving a small Palestinian flag. The grandma walked out.
A school administrator told another parent that the city Department of Education’s legal staff had okayed the display as an expression of free speech.
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But of course they disapprove the high school kid who wants to graduate in his new Marine Dress Blues.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 24 | June 23, 2024 10:49 PM
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Take that tired bullshit somewhere else, r24. Not even remotely on topic.
by Anonymous | reply 25 | June 24, 2024 1:58 AM
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A California man who assaulted a Whatcom Middle School student in downtown Bellingham last year in an alleged racially-motivated hate crime has been sentenced to 41 months in prison.
Paul Jonathan Bittner, 43, of Ukiah, Calif., was arrested on June 12, 2024, and charged with second-degree assault of a child and commission of a hate crime. He pleaded guilty to both felonies in Whatcom County Superior Court on Tuesday afternoon.
“I’m feeling good,” the child’s father, DeVante Blow, told The Bellingham Herald following the sentencing. “I’m feeling as if justice was served and the community is safer.”
He said his family has tried to move past the incident together. They’ve prioritized the boy’s health, and “he’s in a great place.”
Following his arrest, Bittner was initially found not competent to stand trial and spent more than five months at Western State Hospital. While there, he was diagnosed with schizoaffective disorder, bipolar type, which means he experiences symptoms of both schizophrenia and bipolar disorder.
Senior Deputy Prosecuting Attorney Benjamin Pratt said he has been with this case since the beginning, and Bittner showed a “substantially different temperament” today than he did initially following his arrest.
Bittner’s public defender Richard Larson said untreated mental illness was likely the cause of the “very unfortunate situation.”
Bittner did not address the court prior to his sentencing, and the family did not provide victim impact statements.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 26 | July 17, 2025 12:36 AM
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“Listen bud, I make the rules!” 🤜
by Anonymous | reply 27 | July 17, 2025 12:37 AM
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I wonder if the guy is homeless.
by Anonymous | reply 28 | July 17, 2025 12:38 AM
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Oh. Didn’t realize this story is over a year old. He has a home for the next couple of years.
by Anonymous | reply 29 | July 17, 2025 12:43 AM
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Mama and the Church Ladies Coalition are commin to beat...that...ass!
by Anonymous | reply 31 | July 17, 2025 10:07 PM
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