A Seattle man said he was assaulted Wednesday after trying to stop teenagers from spray-painting graffiti on the Ballard Bridge.

William Graf told KIRO 7 he felt compelled to act when he witnessed a group of teens tagging an auto shop on 15th Avenue N.W. before moving on to vandalize the side of the Ballard Bridge.

“You shouldn’t be doing that,” Graf said. “You shouldn’t be defacing other people’s property. That’s wrong.”

It started with Graf’s gut feeling around 1 p.m. on Wednesday.

“I think to myself, that really sucks that I would drive by and not do anything,” Graf said.

That instinct pushed him to pull out his phone and start recording when he saw a young man spray-painting the bridge.

Graf confronted the teen.

“I got up close to him, you know, to get their picture,” Graf added

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