Seattle Police declared the ongoing protest an unlawful assembly...
This seems to be the latest policing fad they have to use a PA system to declare an unlawful assembly. Why not just skip that silly formality and start cracking heads open?
I imagine that requirement comes from the namby-pamby ultra-leftist city councils.
The requirement that local authorities formally warn a group to disperse, or be deemed an unlawful assembly, has been around for over 300 years. It was signed into law by this guy:
It is called "reading the riot act."