(EDMONDS, Wash.) — An 82-year-old white woman has been arrested for an alleged hate crime and assault after an altercation with Trump supporters in which she confronted one about voting for the former president based on color skin, according to a police report.

The incident happened Monday, the day before the general election, at an intersection where several Trump supporters had gathered in Edmonds, Washington, located about 27 miles north of Seattle.

The suspect, who has not been publicly identified by police, is accused of pushing and punching a 55-year-old Trump supporter after getting into a verbal altercation, Edmonds police said. She is accused of then punching a 66-year-old Trump supporter in the chin, who intervened as she demonstrated how she pushed the initial supporter, according to the probable cause statement.

“Neither victim sustained significant injuries or required medical treatment,” the Edmonds Police Department said in a news release Wednesday.

The suspect has not been charged in the incident, a spokesman for the Snohomish District Attorney’s Office told ABC News on Thursday. The case will be reviewed by the prosecutor’s office for any decision to charge.

The suspect, who was wearing a Harris-Walz needle, told a responding officer that he approached the first supporter and said, “I want to know why you’re voting for Trump,” according to body camera footage obtained and reviewed by ABC News. . “And I said, ‘Because you have brown skin.'”

“I hate the racism in this country, I hate the way people are treated,” the suspect continued. “And so I wonder, why would anyone with brown skin support this man? And that was my question.”

She told the officer that the Trump supporter “immediately started yelling ‘racist'” in her face.

“And my response was to push her, I put my hand on her chin and pushed her on the shoulder,” the suspect said. “And it wasn’t hard. But I did it.”

“We didn’t help the situation,” she added.

“I said why? Because of the color of my skin? I said, ‘You’re a racist,'” she said. “Then he came and pushed me. And then he hit me in the chin.

“Obviously he didn’t hurt me,” she continued. “But it’s like, you know what, we have freedom of speech, you can say whatever you want. You can’t touch me.”

Asked if she wanted to file a complaint, the woman said yes. “That makes me nervous, you can’t do that,” she said.

The second Trump supporter said the suspect punched him in the face while demonstrating the initial altercation. “It was pretty strong,” she told the officer.

The suspect told an officer at the scene that he wanted to talk to black people who support Trump.

“I’m definitely not a racist,” the suspect said. “But I definitely want to signal to people with brown or other skin color, ‘Hey, do you realize what’s going to happen?'”

“It’s kind of racist if you’re targeting certain people,” the officer replied.

“I’m not targeting them,” she replied.

The suspect was booked into the Snohomish County Jail for an alleged hate crime and assault, police said. She was released on personal recognizance following a probable cause hearing Tuesday, according to a spokesman for the Snohomish County Prosecutor’s Office.

There is no timeline on the case or any scheduled hearing date, the prosecutor’s office spokesman said.

ABC News was unable to reach the suspect for comment.

The Trump supporter who was initially approached in the incident told Seattle ABC affiliate KOMO that she is still “shocked.”

“He made it very clear that it was the color of my skin,” the woman told the station.

Edmonds Police Chief Michelle Bennett said in a statement that officers “properly determined that this was more than just an assault and arrested the suspect on the appropriate charge.”

“The Constitution protects peaceful assembly in our community, and community members should never be met with violence while exercising those rights,” she said.

Edmonds Mayor Mike Rosen said he was “dismayed that this violence occurred in our community.”

“Members of the community who are peacefully demonstrating political support should not be subjected to hateful violence,” he said in a statement. “I’m thankful there were no serious injuries and the suspect has been brought to justice.”

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