An assault against a transgender woman earlier this month on Capitol Hill is being investigated as a hate crime, the Seattle Gay News reports. According to SGN, the woman said she was punched in the face by a man because she is transgender:

‘I was just walking down the street, carrying my bag,’ she told SGN, ‘when this man comes up and says, ‘Faggot, faggot, there’s a faggot, we should kill people like you.’ 

The Stranger reports that the suspect told police he punched the woman because she kissed him on the cheek, according to the SPD write-up on the May 2nd afternoon incident that started near Bellevue and Pine. We’ll take a look at the SPD report on the incident — it’s not among the reports the department makes available online —  and update if we learn anything new.