(Marion County Sheriff’s Office)The disturbance at the Middle Eastern restaurant morphed within minutes from bizarre to 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, Ore., according to Fox affiliate KPTV. Kendall said he thought the woman was being held hostage because “of the type of shirt she was wearing,” the news station reported. Then he started yelling because he saw a “Saddam Hussein-looking guy” inside the restaurant, according to the Salem Statesman Journal. “Go back to your country, terrorist,” he told the man.

Source: Washington Post March 12, 2017 16:26 UTC