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Anti-ICE protesters burn American flags at Seattle federal building
KOMO ^ | June 11, 2025 | Jeremy Harris

Posted on 06/11/2025 9:57:32 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican

A day of demonstrations at the Henry M. Jackson Federal building in downtown Seattle ended with protesters removing and burning American flags.

The protests started early in the day, around 8 a.m., as protesters barricaded the driveways of the building with rental scooters and bikes.

Police did not attempt to remove the barricades or disrupt the protest until later in the evening when officers clashed with groups of protesters near 2nd Ave and Marion Street.

Demonstrators approached Seattle police officers who were moving through the area on foot and in vans. Police deployed pepper balls toward the protesters, but the interaction ended after around 30 seconds, and Seattle police left the area.

Around 9:45 p.m., protesters removed the American flag from the flagpole on the east side of the building and burned the flag. Approximately 15 minutes later, the group did the same with the American flag on the west plaza.

By 10:30 p.m., the group was reduced to around a dozen people.

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1 posted on 06/11/2025 9:57:32 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

Now imagine if they were burning rainbow pride flags instead. We’d never hear the end of it.


2 posted on 06/11/2025 9:58:22 AM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Any of them that are not US citizens should be deported post haste. That includes “legal” aliens. They’ve given up their right to be here.


3 posted on 06/11/2025 10:00:23 AM PDT by cuban leaf (2024 is going to be one for the history books, like 1939. And 2025 will be more so, like 1940-1945.)
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" protesters removed the American flag from the flagpole on the east side of the building and burned the flag. Approximately 15 minutes later, the group did the same with the American flag on the west plaza."

That's a federal crime and not a protected free speech activity since they stole them and torched them.
4 posted on 06/11/2025 10:01:37 AM PDT by DocRock
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To: MinorityRepublican

They are planning something big with the media whores. Every single story about the riots have been scrubbed from our local trash “news” sites which is basically CNN., everything. Monday there were a dozen stories with hundreds of active comments. Today, all gone. They know what a disaster this is for the democrats and their spin isn’t working. So either they are trying to get new talking points out of the DNC or pretend it isn’t happening.


5 posted on 06/11/2025 10:05:40 AM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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To: MinorityRepublican

“A chance for a better life” WAS NOT THE REASON THESE WETBACKS INVADED THE U.S. This was an invasion for Mehico to take over the southwest U.S. The La Raza racists are behind this. This **** is the reason why the Communist DemonRATS are scared to death of President Trump. Those commie pigs had this all figured out. Trump ended up being “the monkey in the wrench”.


6 posted on 06/11/2025 10:36:08 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (The DemonRATS have replaced Hitler with "Doc" Jill's "Taco" slur to attack President Trump. Nice!)
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To: DocRock

It is usually illegal to start open fires in most cities.


7 posted on 06/11/2025 10:44:00 AM PDT by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: MinorityRepublican

The fact that they are burning American flags while displaying flags from other countries, shows them to be invaders and seditionists, not protesters. In my understanding, this act demands military assistance to put an end to it.


8 posted on 06/11/2025 10:55:53 AM PDT by PrairieLady2 (USA: Land of the free, Because of the Brave.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

The people who burned U.S. flags in LA were probably illegal aliens. The ones who burned flags in Seattle were probably just the usual Seattle antifa psychos.


9 posted on 06/11/2025 11:20:03 AM PDT by suthener ( I do not like living under our homosexual, ghetto, feminist government.)
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They’re burning American flags that symbolize the country that they hate but that millions of people want to come in to.

They’re flying flags from Mexico and Palestine. They’re wearing a keffiyeh, and I want to know what that has to do with immigration!


10 posted on 06/11/2025 11:31:49 AM PDT by I want the USA back (America is once again GREAT! )
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To: MinorityRepublican

Seems sort of insurrectiony.


11 posted on 06/11/2025 11:32:59 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Democrats are the Party of anger, hate and violence.)
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To: suthener

Time for the Washington National Guard.
That will flip them out.


12 posted on 06/11/2025 11:33:21 AM PDT by Palio di Siena (Kralik…..you get the wallet)
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Burning the American Flag should be a felony. Five years in a federal prison with no parole.


13 posted on 06/11/2025 12:46:30 PM PDT by Cobra64 (ECommon sense isn’t common anymore.)
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To: Palio di Siena

The WA governor is almost surely on there side.


14 posted on 06/11/2025 1:10:17 PM PDT by A strike (Britain is now a puny, impotent nation, desperately needing US support to remain relevant. fck MI6)
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To: A strike

100 %


15 posted on 06/11/2025 1:19:37 PM PDT by Palio di Siena (Kralik…..you get the wallet)
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