© Springfield Police DepartmentThis suspect allegedly embraced strangers before telling them they were infected with COVID-19.
This suspect's wanted for a different kind of bearing arms.
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.
Comment: Trump repeated his veiled threat to sort out Democrat-run cities if they can't quell the violence on their own: Unfortunately, the president is in a bind. Though his base (and all normal people) would be glad to the violence ended and the perpetrators punished, it would hand his opponents the opportunity to portray him as the fascist they've always claimed he is. And the citizenry suffer.