https://theworldwatch.com/tags/salt-lake-city/ Thu 18 Jun 2026 03:28:53 +0200 https://theworldwatch.com/videos/1616671/black-man-randomly-assaults-a-white-man-in-slc-causing-woman-to-draw-her-firearm/
" It started weird & got weirder as the day went on. This was the grand finale. Had to pull my weapon for 2nd time ever in the same place where I had 3 years ago during another violent attack. This is Justice Messiah Bottoms, a stranger to Ben & I until he walked onto the Anderson property & attacked Ben unprovoked, then didn’t flee, but calmly waited for police to arrive & when they did, he put his hands in the air & walked towards them. You can hear in the recording he taunts me to shoot him several times …I do not feel the emotion of anger easily. It takes a lot, not because I’m trying so hard not to feel it. It just doesn’t occur easily. But when it does, it is warranted. I sound & look ridiculous when I am angry, or sound ridiculous when trying to raise my voice or yell. I do not like arguing, I do not like raising my voice & I certainly don’t like people putting me in the position where I have to unholster my firearm to prevent people from committing violence towards me, or someone else. Even if you don’t pull the trigger, the psychological & mental trauma exists with the almost. This guy has a lovely history of assaults, protective order violations & other crimes that seem to be primarily violence based & when reviewing footage from when he shows up at the park at about 6:59 PM, nothing is initially alarming about him or what he does, but when you look closer, you can see issues with his body language & his behavior that are indicating that something is not right. I spent all day sending texts & emails regarding what was going on in the park & making suggestions & aside from 1 time in the morning when a patrol vehicle paused by briefly & everyone scattered, I was on the cameras all day long monitoring, documenting, reporting & communicating & this is exactly the type of thing I was trying to prevent. I saw no officers making any sort of proactive patrol or walk-throughs that would have dispersed the increasingly growing in size group of people using & dealing w/ mental health issues, not being addressed, & if you get too many people together like that, it is a recipe for disaster. The officers that arrived for the call, Myers & Black were amazing aside from a little bit of an issue upon their arrival." ]]> Wed 17 Jun 2026 08:47:03 +0200 https://theworldwatch.com/videos/1616671/black-man-randomly-assaults-a-white-man-in-slc-causing-woman-to-draw-her-firearm/