© Springfield Police DepartmentThis suspect allegedly embraced strangers before telling them they were infected with COVID-19.
Police in Springfield, Massachusetts, are searching for a man who gave unsolicited "COVID hugs" to strangers in a local Walmart.
The man, pictured on surveillance footage wearing a black T-shirt and camouflage shorts, has embraced multiple customers before informing them they were just infected with the coronavirus, according to the Springfield Police Department.
During one of the hostile hugs reported last Saturday evening, he took an item out of a cancer survivor's hand to hold him close, the department wrote in a Facebook post asking for help identifying the man.
"He told the victim, 'Just giving you a COVID hug. You now have COVID,' the department said.
The man allegedly laughed and walked away.
The suspect is being sought for charges of assault and battery and making terroristic threats, according to Masslive.com.
IDIOT.
BTW - Undesired / unsolicited hug? That's an assault. Though statutes have made mere words crimes, (and which, if fairly implemented, I'd bet that his words - as 'assaults' (part of hate crimes) - and HUGS were directed at whities.which is probably why we see a surveillance image only rather than the hugs; again, if they catch him they can charge misdemeanor assault, and COULD AND SHOULD (odds: 75%) charge him with Hate Crimes, if the facts show that - BUT they can't because he's black and only blacks can be victims of whites for that.) . (The BFM is actively encouraging blacks to assault whites and I'd damn sure get a C-1984 Hug, than the 'Diversity Treatment' of the kind that black mobs are doing all over America. )
Gotta go.
RC