Seattle Man Gets 5 Years for Hitting Officer with Baseball Bat, Arson During Riot
The officer added, “My head almost got taken off that night. That impact that night, I did not feel the repercussions that I’m going to have to live through…I don’t know how much worse my headaches might get when I get older.”
A 19-year-old man was sentenced to five years in prison Friday for hitting a Seattle officer in the head with a metal baseball bat and attempting to burn down the East Precinct police station with firebombs during a September 2020 riot.
Jacob Greenburg, 19, the stepson of former Kirkland State Rep. Laura Ruderman, was charged with first-degree assault for the attack on Officer Jose Jimenez. KING5 reports. Investigators said the officer’s bike helmet likely saved his life. The impact of the bat dented his helmet.
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"I don't know how I'm still here," Jimenez told the court Friday.
The officer added, “My head almost got taken off that night. That impact that night, I did not feel the repercussions that I’m going to have to live through…I don’t know how much worse my headaches might get when I get older,” KIRO7 reports.
Greenburg was also charged with first-degree attempted arson and first-degree reckless burning for his attack on the police station.
A woman who also participated in the fire bombing, Danielle McMillan, 29, was sentenced to 12 months of community service. McMillan was charged with first-degree attempted arson.
Greenburg and McMillan allegedly reveled in the assault on Jimenez and indicated their desire to cause him serious injury or death. “Wish he didn’t have a helmet on lol,” Greenburg texted McMillan, according to charging documents.
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Court documents also revealed text messages in which Greenburg and McMillan allegedly conspired to set fires around SPD’s East Precinct. The documents revealed a series of exchanges Greenburg had with other protesters. One of them read, “How many Molotov cocktails you think we should have by Labor Day cuz we shouldn’t overuse our resources.”
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