A man assaulted a woman at Western Ave. and Union downtown, saying she assaulted his car with her magazine. According to the police report, a woman was crossing Western Ave. in a marked crosswalk without a stoplight around 6 p.m. March 22. The suspect's white van, headed southbound on Western, did not stop and came so close to the victim that the magazine she was holding in her hand touched the front-right portion of his van.

According to the report, dude flips out (insert joke about the "power of the printed word" here), and the suspect allegedly stopped his van, backed up a few car lengths, got out and started yelling at the woman.

Feeling threatened, the woman kept walking away. The man followed her and caught up with her halfway down the block. When she pulled out her phone to call 911, the man struck her, cutting her lower lip. She fell to the ground and hit the back of her head on a parking sign.

Southbound on Western Ave. at Union (via Google Street View).

He stood over her, yelling unintelligible things at her, and witnesses told the man not to hit her again. At that point he returned to his car, but police arrived before he left. Multiple witness accounts were very similar to the victim's version of events, according to the report.

After gathering witness statements, police placed the man under arrest. When officers told him he was being arrested for assault, the report says the man told police, "Oh, no. She came at me and assaulted my car." Later the man told officers he felt he did something wrong and would try something different the next time.

The report does not mention whether the victim was treated or transported for her injuries.