Seattle police break up mascot fight

Seattle -- The Seattle chief of police helped to break up an early morning sidewalk fight between a bar patron and a man dressed as an eagle.

Police Chief Gil Kerlikowske said he noticed the rumble while he was being led on a closing-time tour of the club district by Lt. Kenneth Hicks, shift commander at the precinct that includes the district, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer reported Friday.

The officers saw the man in the eagle suit being thrown to the ground and stomped on by the other man while a second costumed figure -- dressed as a beaver -- watched the fight.

The men were secured by four patrol officers and all were released without citations, the newspaper reported. None of the men were injured.

The two costumed men are thought to have been mascots from Northwest universities in Seattle for a competition during Seattle's Fire Festival, the Post-Intelligencer said.

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