Rioters target Seattle police, local businesses late Saturday

[Matariki]

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2014349566_rioters28m.html?syndication=rss

A group of 25 to 30 people, most dressed in black and wearing bandannas or masks, wreaked mayhem Saturday night in Seattle on Capitol Hill and the Denny Triangle, painting anti-police slogans, throwing flares at patrol cars and trashing several businesses, police said.

Officers arrested three people on suspicion of rioting, pedestrian interference and obstruction.

The melee began about 9 p.m., as an officer was taking a prisoner to the West Precinct office at Eighth Avenue and Virginia Street. The officer noted a large group gathered nearby at Boren Avenue and Howell Street, the intersection where Seattle police Officer Ian Birk fatally shot John T. Williams, a First Nations woodcarver, on Aug. 30. The area was the scene of a September protest.

The shooting was ruled unjustified, but prosecutors recently said they would not file criminal charges. Mayor Mike McGinn, meanwhile, declared Sunday John T. Williams Day.

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[inademv]

1. No substance

I really hate pieces like this. "shit happened, don't know who or why".

[HEyHEY]

2. Yeah, they should just look up "Masked goons" in the yellow pages and call them up

To find out what happened!


Actually, I know what you're saying, but having covered a story like this before I can tell you it's hard to get credible info on such things.

[inademv]

3. I mean, I hate to nitpick about it

But there's just so little in the way of useful information or even enough information for one to do their own investigation.

[speltwon]

4. If the past events in Seattle can be used as guidance

The perpetrators are usually anarchist morons from Oregon.

[Matariki]

5. lol

[HEyHEY]

6. Nothing is more fun than a bunch of people in a decently functioning state

Heralding anarchy

[Matariki]

7. Yep, we definitely have our idiots here in Seattle.

On the other hand I think that court ruling deserves some sort of protest. Probably not spray-painting and breaking car windows though.

Keep in mind also that it's often hard to tell how accurately the press is actually reporting.

[speltwon]

8. right, but I am saying that it more often than not is the whole Eugene Oregon

Anarchist brigade when stuff like this happens in Seattle. That's what happened several times in the past. A small, but violent minority made the legitimate protesters look violent, when in fact Seattleites are almost always better than that.

They've been open about traveling up here for this kind of thing.

I;m talking about these fucksticks!

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1000411,00.html