Canadian tourist forgives Seattle for damage in May Day protest

A Canadian man caught in the middle of the May Day protest
in
downtown Seattle said he’s not holding a grudge against
Seattle.

“Just like we can’t hold it against Vancouver for a few of
the idiots who caused a riot here, we can’t hold it
against
Seattle for a few of the idiots who caused a riot there,”
Sam Lee, a pastor, told the Dori Monson Show.

Sam Lee’s car window was bashed in on Tuesday during the May Day protest in downtown Seattle.(97.3 KIRO FM/Josh Kerns)

Lee walked out of a restaurant on Tuesday with his family
to witness a group donned in all-black outfits breaking
windows at Niketown. As if that wasn’t frightening
enough, he returned to his car to find the rear window had
been bashed in.

Tourism officials in Seattle have offered Lee and his
family an all-expenses paid trip back to the city.

Lee said there were plenty of people on who went out of
their way to help his family after their car was
vandalized.

“There were two gentlemen who stopped and wanted to make
sure everything was OK. They were there pretty much the
entire time just kind of checking on me to make sure
everything was OK. There was another young man who
actually
went to a nearby store and bought plastic to put on the
window so that I could drive away,” Lee recalled.

He said he, his wife, their baby girl, and his mother-in-
law
had come down for a long weekend and had no idea what
they were getting into.

Lee said he’s not sure if or when they’ll return to
Seattle.