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Group of about 100+ are marching down 5th Ave in the ID. Sign says, “SPOG is the prob.” Another days “Bezos is a looter.” We got a modest car brigade of 9-10 on the tail, protecting group from vehicular attacks.
This neighbor is into it
At least three police trucks stage on the on-ramp onto 4th as the person who plays the flute at these things kicks up a marchin tune
A group of bike cops is tailing the group, riding parallel down 3rd Ave. as photogs turn their lenses to snap photos, the cops wave.
Solidarity from Taco Bell dude
“We love postal workers,” the crowd chants, as we pass the USPS mechanic shop. (Also I may have underestimated the number of marchers. Could be 200.)
Postal worker dude is into it
Here at SPOG HQ. Cops trailing.
The sound of country music is blaring from SPOG HQ I think. “Save a horse ride a cowboy.”
As you may have seen, at 6:21 a large group of cops bullrushed protesters outside SPOG HQ. They split the group, made arrests, deployed blast balls, pepper spray. Cops continued rushing crowds from SODO all the way now to Rainier and Dearborn.
Crowd has now been pushed into Judkins Park area.
The gas seen in this vid stung.
Police snatched shields, umbrellas, and threw blast balls as crowd moved back.
More umbrella snatching, and an officer firing rubber bullets, presumably at protesters tossing road cones.
Cops would sometimes pull an umbrella, create a snag, and then pepper spray the crowd.
Will add here the protest was peaceful until after police bulls rushed the crowd. I saw no property damage, paint, fireworks or anything until after cops rushed in. Then some threw water bottles, rocks.
