Jury finds 2 firefighters ‘not guilty’ of attack on homeless men

SFD memorial Pioneer Square. KCPQ TV.

SEATTLE — A jury acquitted two firefighters and a third person of any wrongdoing after a confrontation with two homeless men sleeping on a firefighter memorial statue earlier this year in Pioneer Square.
The charges stem from a March 15 incident following a Seattle Sounders soccer match.
According to court documents, Scott Bullene, Robert Howell and Mia Jarvinen were walking from CenturyLink Stadium to McCoy’s Firehouse near the intersection of South Washington Street and 2nd Avenue when they spotted a homeless man sleeping under the Seattle Fallen Firefighter’s Memorial statue in Pioneer Square.
Witnesses told police that Jarvinen became enraged at the man sleeping under the statue and began yelling at him. With little response from the man, she punched the victim in the head and Howell allegedly stomped the victim.
Witness Alvin Taniferro told Q13 FOX Howell and Jarvinen didn’t like the man’s “disrespect” of the monument, and that they became enraged he was sleeping beneath it.
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