Posted on 05/02/2016 10:50:51 AM PDT by simpson96
Hurling rocks, bricks and even Molotov cocktails, anti-capitalist protesters clashed with police in downtown Seattle Sunday, as May Day mayhem erupted again following a peaceful march.
By 10:30 p.m., at least five officers had been injured and at least nine people had been arrested, Seattle police reported. One injured officer suffered a gash to his head when he was struck by a rock.
Police said Monday that all five officers were at home recovering from their injuries.
The city unleashed a massive deployment of police officers in riot gear — on foot, on bicycles, on horseback and in vehicles — to control the crowd of dozens of masked-protesters who began massing in Westlake Park for the unpermitted march shortly after 5 p.m.
Unlike previous years, however, police quickly herded the mob of several hundred black-clad protesters out of Seattle’s business district, using a choreographed rolling blockade of bicycle officers and vans to shuttle cops in riot gear ahead of the crowd to cut off escape routes.
Before the night was over, the protesters had been marched out of downtown and into the city’s Sodo industrial area, where fewer targets for destruction were available. Along the way, officers at times doused unruly demonstrators with pepper-spray and fired “blast-balls” to control and disperse the crowd.
By about 8:45 p.m., police had surrounded a thinned-out group of demonstrators in the parking lot of Costco on Fourth Avenue South, south of the West Seattle Bridge. There, officers arrested several people, then slowly allowed small groups of the remaining protesters to disperse, while flanking some of them back north toward downtown. (snip)
Among the officers who were hurt, one was struck by a Molotov cocktail, but was not burned. Another officer was bitten, police reported.
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These dumbasses don’t even know what capitalism is.
Conservatives would be executed for doing anything close to this.
Pimping for Communism is a filthy business. It’s a good thing we have policemen around to help control those freeloading bass turds.
It’s way past time for live ammunition.
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Trash.
Made nothing in life yet but bills.
One of our local Pittsburgh news stations ran a report on yesterday’s local May Day “celebration” (socialist protest) as if it were a wonderful gathering of earnest civic-minded people. Nothing about its history being rooted in international communism and anarchy.
If it had been a Tea Party event it would have been labeled as “controversial” and they would have been scanning the crowd for potentially “racist” signs.
Hillary scum, or Bernie slime?
Bring in the scoops!
One just was, up in Oregon. They’d be using live ammo if it was counterrevolutionaries like us.
A molotov cocktail is a bomb. Anyone who throws one needs to be stopped by police, using deadly force if necessary.
And all arrested will be set free within 24 hours. No fine! Nothing.
Flame throwers!
I remember when May Day was celebrated by leaving candy at a friend’s house, ringing the doorbell and running away. Great fun for kids.
Then the Commies took over.
And full auto!
Niiiiice.
So remember, Tuesday is Soylent Green day.
Dancing around the Maypole.
Dollars to donuts all the protesters were public schooled.
too many expensive windows downtown.
Ah, yes. I was in town for the WTO riots. Fun times. The Boys in the Black Masks were setting dumpsters on fire and rolling them downhill toward the Sound. Dropping tear gas in the Bus Tunnel. Infiltrating the union marches and popping out of ranks to throw stuff at the cops to try to get them to attack the union folks. These aren’t protesters, they’re thugs trying to raise as much hell as possible.
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