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He was coming to his girlfriend’s defense after a dispute over a parking space in which Martin and another man “accosted” the woman and boxed in her vehicle, the lawyer said.

At 4:55 p.m., the suspect accosted a woman another gas station.

Making his rounds, Im was accosted by a column of chattering elementary school students in yellow uniforms.

She says she has had to calm some women down who have been spoken to or accosted by protesters on their way in for an appointment.

She says the complaints against her — one for allegedly making an inappropriate gesture to another officer and the other for accosting a civilian employee — were “fabricated” as a way of punishing her for speaking out.