Posted on 05/01/2012 1:53:53 PM PDT by MountainLoop
SEATTLE -- Some May Day protestors are running rampant in Downtown Seattle, smashing windows at businesses and cars as they marched through city streets Tuesday afternoon.
Video from Air 4 has shown smashed windows at a Wells Fargo, a Downtown Federal Courthouse, and Niketown, among others.
KOMO News reporter Joel Moreno says he and his photographer had been hit with a paint bomb while covering the march and ensuing riot.
He says about 50 people clad in all black outfits were throwing paint at buildings and cars, marking the anarchist symbols, "but there were certainly others not dressed in black participating in criminal behavior."
The march itself began with about 200 people and then the group in black inserted itself into the middle of the parade body.
"They wasted no time," Moreno said. "They went about two blocks before they started damaging property."
Moreno said that's when he was hit with a paint bomb. But up ahead he started hearing glass shatter.
"We turned the corner and saw large storefronts at Wells Fargo smashed in," he said. "We saw a firebomb of some sort at the U.S. Court of Appeals where they went in and bashed the windows." Moreno said it looks like a firebomb was lobbed inside: "We saw smoke coming from inside the windows."
As protestors smashed windows at Niketown, store owners at nearby American Eagle store blocked their doors while customers were still inside in an effort to keep rioters out.
Police were using pepper spray, said a Seattlepi.com photographer who was caught in a melee.
There are no word on the number of any arrests.
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Amen to that, RO. My Class IIIs would relish the ‘workout’.
Happiness is a warm machinegun.
Love that sentiment.
LOL!!! Obviously....I do too! :)
A firebomb is one thing... that’s a matter of life and death. Smashing windows is not. I think that’s where appropriate use of deadly force is open for discussion.
I don’t live in Seattle, I just work here. Most of the time it’s a great place to be, it just whacks out now and then.
I had to laugh when I left work this afternoon. Waiting for my bus across from the Wells Fargo Building (the target of today’s festivities), I saw the entire block taken up by news vans, just waiting for carnage so they can report it.
The entrance to the Wells Fargo building was wrapped in yellow caution tape, like that’s REALLY going to deter anyone.
“Wouldn’t surprise me if the ones doing the damage are undercover cops.”
Huh? Please explain.
I wouldn't want to get that close. The smell might overcome me. I'd prefer 7.62 mm, and not that wimpy Russian "short" version. Although their 7.62x54R would do the job. But what I've got is 7.62x51, aka 7.62Nato. I'd say use Ma Duece, but I don't have one of those, or anything that fires her caliber either. :-(
That might make for a good scene in a Hollywood movie but the perps would probably be portrayed as martyrs.
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