Over the next few hours, a number of marchers began to converge on the area from different directions. These included a student march from the north, a march of citizens of the developing world who marched in from the south and, beginning around 9am, militant anarchists (in a formation known as a black bloc) marching down Pike Street from 6th Avenue, blockading the streets with newspaper boxes and smashing windows. Some demonstrators held rallies, others held teach-ins and at least one group staged an early-morning street party. That morning, the King County Sheriff’s Office and Seattle Police Department fired pepper spray, tear gas canisters, and stun grenades[citation needed] at protesters at several intersections in an attempt to reopen the blocked streets and allow as many WTO delegates as possible through the blockade. At 6th Avenue and Union Street, the crowd threw them back.[citation needed] By late morning, the black bloc had swelled to 200 people and smashed dozens of shops and police cars. This seems to have set off a chain-reaction of sorts, with previously nonviolent protesters throwing bottles at police and joining in the vandalism shortly before noon. Some protesters tried to physically block the activities of the black bloc, however. Seattle police (led by Chief Norm Stamper) did not react immediately because they had been convinced by protest organizers during the protest-permit process that peaceful organizers would quell these kinds of activities.
*The New York Times printed an erroneous article that stated that protesters at the 1999 WTO convention in Seattle threw Molotov cocktails at police. Two days later, The New York Times printed a correction saying that the protest was mostly peaceful and no protesters were accused of throwing objects at delegates or the police, but the original error persisted in later accounts in the mainstream media.
The Seattle City Council also dispelled these rumors with its own investigation findings:*
Your views of the sacrament of the Propaganda of the Deed and mine are very different.
Sadly this is all over America. Cops in America are aggressive.We talk and get supervisor after we beet you down in handcuffs.
There many videos on youtube of cops screaming like 9 olds, getting worked up for filming in public even arresting them .There even videos of home owner getting arrested on his own property in gun friendly state for bad guy on his property.After he called 911 of bad guy on his property.
I would prefer to see the the video about a minute or so before this…she already had her pepper spray out when the video starts so I am wondering if there was something else that set her off a few seconds before this.
Give her a break. Cops like her are on high alert because they know how long it takes them to reach into their breast pocket, grab their one bullet, and load it.
She looks like a scared little bitch with zero confidence or any natural authority. Worst type of cop ever. I’d bet this is the 100th time she’s sprayed people because they didn’t “respect my authoritay!” Seriously, I’d love to find out how many cans of spray she’s gone through. I wonder if they keep records on that?
I hate beets.