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9 arrested, 5 officers hurt as May Day anti-capitalist march turns violent (Seattle - pics)
Seattle Times ^ | 5/1/2016 | Staff

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at seattletimes.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Washington
KEYWORDS: anarchy; mayday; seattle
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To: kingu

This rioting has become a tiresome annual ritual.


21 posted on 05/02/2016 11:54:28 AM PDT by Steve_Seattle ("Above all, shake your bum at Burton.")
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To: Steve_Seattle

Perhaps they could be proactive - celebrate the ‘4/20’ ‘’holiday’’ on May 1st?


22 posted on 05/02/2016 11:57:12 AM PDT by kingu (Everything starts with slashing the size and scope of the federal government.)
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To: ichabod1
Dancing around the Maypole.

Not exactly "The Safety Dance", though.

23 posted on 05/02/2016 12:18:46 PM PDT by Charles Martel (Endeavor to persevere...)
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To: ichabod1

Dancing around the Maypole.

So that’s what it is!
I always thought it was some kind of Vermont holiday,
dancing around a Maple...

Then there was always the Toronto Maypole Leafs...


24 posted on 05/02/2016 12:23:28 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: simpson96

9 ?, 9 ?, Really?? Sounds like it should have been more like 900..


25 posted on 05/02/2016 12:31:22 PM PDT by CMailBag
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To: Lurker
It’s way past time for live ammunition.

Yep.

Just like the SAPS at Marikana:

Killing communists is always a good deed of the day.

26 posted on 05/02/2016 12:33:50 PM PDT by DCBryan1 (No realli, moose bytes can be quite nasti!)
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To: simpson96

Those “hurling rocks, bricks and even Molotov cocktails” should have been shot with real bullets.


27 posted on 05/02/2016 12:37:21 PM PDT by Gator113 (~~Go Trump, GO!~~ Just livin' life my way. Don't worry, everything's gonna be alright. 👍)
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To: Carl Vehse; Lurker

Batons would do nicely, a la Chicago, 1968.

28 posted on 05/02/2016 12:37:53 PM PDT by simpson96
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To: simpson96
These and more malcontents will be in Cleveland this July, should be a hot time in Forest City!


29 posted on 05/02/2016 12:45:49 PM PDT by Veracious Poet (May God Bless America (again)
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To: simpson96

Where is the National Guard when we need them?


30 posted on 05/02/2016 12:46:37 PM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is another agitator for republicanism like Sam Adams when we need him?)
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To: simpson96

I believe it is called a “Mahogany Shampoo”.


31 posted on 05/02/2016 1:26:36 PM PDT by rlmorel ("Irrational violence against muslims" is a myth, but "Irrational violence against non-muslims" isn't)
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To: ichabod1

We did this at my grade school in Kansas during the late 1940’s and early 1950’s. Practiced every day for two weeks before so we would get it right. All the girls dressed in pink dresses with white aprons and pink and white ribbons on the Maypole. Fun memory.


32 posted on 05/02/2016 1:50:51 PM PDT by Grams A (The Sun will rise in the East in the morning and God is still on his throne.)
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To: rlmorel

I have an oak baton...a good ol’ fashioned billy club. A Google search for “mahogany shampoo” turns up a bunch of herbal shampoo.


33 posted on 05/02/2016 1:58:09 PM PDT by gundog (Help us, Nairobi-Wan Kenobi...you're our only hope.)
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To: Original Lurker

Post “Pledge of Allegiance.”


34 posted on 05/02/2016 1:59:14 PM PDT by gundog (Help us, Nairobi-Wan Kenobi...you're our only hope.)
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To: gundog

Heh, I heard a Freeper refer to it as that, and I thought it was wonderfully descriptive and rolls off the tongue!

Oak is probably more factually descriptive, though...:)


35 posted on 05/02/2016 2:08:24 PM PDT by rlmorel ("Irrational violence against muslims" is a myth, but "Irrational violence against non-muslims" isn't)
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To: rlmorel

And a hell of a lot harder.


36 posted on 05/02/2016 2:20:57 PM PDT by gundog (Help us, Nairobi-Wan Kenobi...you're our only hope.)
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To: simpson96
DO NOT ARREST.

Kill them where they stand.

37 posted on 05/02/2016 2:22:26 PM PDT by Lazamataz (Trump is great. Just great. He's going to do great things and America will be great and spectacular.)
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To: gundog

As long as it is harder than the heads of anarchists, I am fine with it!


38 posted on 05/02/2016 2:26:59 PM PDT by rlmorel ("Irrational violence against muslims" is a myth, but "Irrational violence against non-muslims" isn't)
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To: SJSAMPLE

TCM played “Soylent Green a couple of days ago, and I thought how current it seemed in the mob scenes. The Movie
ostensively takes place in 2022.


39 posted on 05/02/2016 2:56:51 PM PDT by gigster (Cogito, Ergo, Ronaldus Magnus Conservatus)
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To: SJSAMPLE

TCM played “Soylent Green a couple of days ago, and I thought how current it seemed in the mob scenes. The Movie
ostensively takes place in 2022.


40 posted on 05/02/2016 3:02:34 PM PDT by gigster (Cogito, Ergo, Ronaldus Magnus Conservatus)
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