Posted on 05/02/2012 3:42:44 AM PDT by tobyhill
Seattle Mayor Mike McGinn says he's making an emergency declaration allowing police to confiscate items that can be used as weapons following violent May Day protests that left storefronts and car windows shattered.
Police said officers made at least three arrests after hundreds of people marched through downtown Tuesday afternoon. A 23-year-old man was arrested for vandalism and a 19-year-old man with a knife was also arrested.
Protestors dressed in black clothing smashed windows of retail stores and banks, and spray-painted parked cars, reported Q13 FOX News. NikeTown, American Apparel, HSBC, and Wells Fargo were among the businesses protesters vandalized.
McGinn said protesters were using items that looked like flagpoles as weapons. He said his order would enable police to take those items away from people before they are used to cause damage. McGinn said his action would help protect public safety as protests continued into Tuesday evening.
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The Occupy lefties have a problem. They have to do their crap in the cities to make an impact, but the cities are run by Dems. So the lefties are battling each other.....
Corrupt, criminal lib-dem mayors are cowards and always wait until “the protected class” - regardless of their stripe - is well out of harm’s way, before making bold declarations of action. By then, it’s way too late and the damage is already done.
Philly’s Rizzuto and Chicago’s Daley didn’t have a problem with issuing those orders.
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