Tom Brower, a Haole, punched in the head and taken to The Queen’s Medical Center with a concussion, after Tom trespasses upon a Kakaa’ko ‘tent city’ encampment and refuses reasonable commands to turn his camera off by local-inhabitants distressed at the invasion of their privacy. Tom, a Hawaii state representative, has appeared on video smashing the shopping-carts of the homeless with a sledgehammer; and walking the street with a very large baton epitomizing his ‘Tough’ approach to those on the streets (and in many cases, without proper financing, familial support and quality friendship, and access to resources, transportation (such as a registered, insured car); and usually stuck in a a dead-end, no-win situation.
The people attacking Tom claim not to have known that Tom is a representative.
Akira Morikawa 