NB: Senseless Seattle Transit Beating

We’re back in downtown Seattle, again wondering how it’s turned into a playground for roving bands of marauders. The videotape of the beating of a 15-year-old girl in the Downtown Seattle Transit Tunnel released this week has set heads shaking throughout the city, and made unwelcome national news. Just like the attack two weeks ago that left a Metro bus driver unconscious, and a 14-year-old boy charged with assault. And just like the killing of Ed McMichael, better known as “The Tuba Man,” who died in late 2008 from injuries he suffered after being beaten by three teenagers. There’s so much senselessness and disbelief here, I don’t know where to start. And it doesn’t help that there are conflicting reports from all parties/ Nicole Brodeur , Seattle Times. More here .

Question: Could this happen in the Inland Northwest?