Woman Files Police Report After Anti-Masker Allegedly Threatens Family

Updated 11/24/2020

I received word that the online report was approved by the Anchorage Police Department. The alleged victim who filed the complaint will be following up with APD sometime today.

An Anchorage woman has filed an online police report with APD after an alleged altercation at a local Holiday convenience store on Debarr Road earlier today.

Anchorage resident Johnnie Fletcher, who sent me a copy of her submitted online report, says that she arrived at Holiday after picking groceries up from a neighboring Carr's grocery store. Fletcher says that her mother, who suffers from COPD and who is at a higher risk for COVID-19, walked into the store when two men, one of whom had a child with them, followed behind her without masks. Mrs. Fletcher, concerned about her mother's close proximity to unmasked individuals, went into the store where it appeared mask-wearing was not being enforced, and encouraged her mother to return to the vehicle.

Fletcher said she often carries extra masks with her and generously offered some to the three individuals who at this point were standing in line sans masks.

According to Mrs. Fletcher's report, one of the men called her "horrible, awful and a cunt." Another man who had a child with him referred to Fletcher as a "miserable bitch" and told her to do her own research on mask wearing.

Fletcher, who said she did not know the two men, became alarmed, exited the convenience store and began walking to her car. The two men allegedly followed her into the parking lot where they began to harass Fletcher, telling her, "You're a horrible bitch, no wonder no man wants you" and "You're gonna die alone because you're such an awful woman."

As the parking lot altercation intensified, Fletcher said one of the men physically threatened her, saying "don't be surprised if you die in a car accident" and that he hoped her mother "catches COVID and dies."

It was at that point that Fletcher, who also had her own child with her, got into her vehicle and left but says in her report that she was followed by one of the men in their own vehicle, one she describes as a "dark 4-door sedan," allegedly "aggressively following" Fletcher and her family through the back roads along Debarr until Fletcher turned into the area where she lives.

Making it safely home, Fletcher immediately filed a report using the Anchorage Police Department's Online Reporting System. She has been assigned a tracking number by APD and is awaiting approval of the final report.

Fletcher, who was shaken by today's altercation, is at odds to explain the actions of the two men, telling me that all she did was, "offer them a mask. It's getting too wild out there."

Alaska DHSS urges masks wearing for the general public anytime you are near others or outside your household bubble, and the municipality of Anchorage has a mask mandate in place which many stores still do not enforce.

I'll be sure to update this post when the Anchorage Police Department responds to her online report.