Posted on 09/24/2020 8:44:25 AM PDT by Red Badger
Rioters threw rocks, glass bottles, and explosives at police during another night of riots in Seattle
Following Wednesday's decision by a grand jury not to indict police officers on homicide charges in the fatal shooting of Breonna Taylor in Kentucky, cities across the country erupted in protests and violence, including St. Petersburg, Portland, and Louisville, where two police officers were shot. In Seattle, riots erupted that included a vicious baseball bat attack on a police officer.
A shocking video from Wednesday night's riots in Seattle shows a man dressed in all black violently smash a police officer in the back of the head with a metal baseball bat. The police officer was wearing a helmet, which may have saved his life.
The officer was attempting to wrest his bicycle back from a person in the crowd. The masked rioter sneaks up on the officer while he is distracted and steps into a swinging attack with the metal bat that hits the cop in the back of the helmet. The officer was able to keep his footing after being bashed in the head and escaped the violent mob.
The Seattle Police Department issued a press release on Wednesday night's violence in the city. "Multiple officers were injured to include one who was struck in the head with a baseball bat cracking his helmet," the statement said, which included photos of the officer's damaged helmet.
The Seattle Police Department also noted that an individual threw an explosive at law enforcement officers at approximately 10:45 p.m. on Wednesday night. The incendiary device "exploded near waiting bike officers."
When cops attempted to arrest the suspect, they were assaulted with glass bottles and rocks from the crowd of rioters. Police said they "deployed pepper spray and blast balls in an attempt to create space between the officers and the protestors."
Agitators also cut wires powering the security cameras to the precinct and set dumpsters on fire, and more explosives were thrown at officers. Seattle Police declared the ongoing protest an unlawful assembly after several fireworks were fired at police.
The Seattle police said they arrested 13 individuals. Charges include property destruction, resisting arrest, failure to disperse, and assault on an officer.
Earlier this week, the Department of Justice announced that Seattle is one of three U.S. cities declared to be "anarchist jurisdictions," along with Portland and New York City. The designation could cause those cities to lose federal funding.
I’m an advocate of stink bombs!!
It makes them look weak. It makes them look like pussies.
I couldn't agree more but these are only peaceful protests. /s
Keeping the peace and protecting liberties, as always.
Wait a minute. In a world with 110 pound female cops you think bikes are a visual negative? Really?
where is the FBI ? chris Wray ? find out who is doing this who funds them
“..Police on bicycles is just nuts...”
some police train officers to use the bikes as a defensive tool in crowd control. For one thing it keeps them away from the body. It can also be a pretty good weapon.
“Protester”
Without using proper riot control equipment, the liberal powers are allowing the cops to be “defunded” by attrition
I read daily black protesters say that the rioters are not BLM nor represent the Black community.
Where I can respond, I always write back "So take control of the "peaceful protests" and weed the violent ones out!"
Their lack of response is, to me, tacit approval of the violent tactics.
Unreal.... I do believe that we are witnessing the Tribulation...….
Yes, bikes are a visual negative and so are female cops. That goes for women in the military as well.
Yeah...this park is notorious for miscreants running loose these days, but I think the bike cops are a thing of the past.
I am suprised that a metal bat swung with that amount of force and hitting the back of the head didn’t at least knock the officer to the ground and leave him stunned or unconscious. Do they have flubber in those helmets?
Not as good as a 1,000 pound horse. A phalanx of horses strikes fear in anybody opposing the cops.
Plus, when the rioter takes your bike, you have to get it back from the rioter. Is there anything more silly looking than a cop trying to get his bicycle back from a thug?
Maybe that’s the objective.
Replace all the good guys with bad guys.
Replace the good cops with useful idiots that will be a terrorizing force against conservatives....................
It is known.....................
Memory foam.........................
Meanwhile, in Louisville and LA, police are being shot.
Bats are so last week...
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