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 don’t have time to review the video, but what I saw was a line of bike cops and this guy got separated from the group. Rioters grabbing at his bike, tossing stuff at him, then he got clobbered up the side of his head.
Those people standing there look like cops because of the dark outfits and professional looking helmets, but I think they were all rioters.
I’ve seen various videos about antifa tactics. Picking off the last cop in a line would make sense.
I’ve been preaching SUBSONIC! You can even get it .357.
“Without using proper riot control equipment, the liberal powers are allowing the cops to be “defunded” by attrition”
Exactly right. I was looking for police academy enrollments recently. I found that the San Francisco PD is not even able to fill all of their academy slots. So not only are cops taking early retirement and quitting, the pipeline with new cops is not full. This does not bode well for the nation in the coming years.
that too
I think that police horses should be trained for battle, as in medieval times, and that their riders should be trained to use them as weapons. No rioter would want to be kicked, bitten, or just ridden down and trampled.
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