Seattle's protest was hijacked

[KT2000]

by the anarchy folks. A woman said she videoed the people who smashed windows so I hope she can share those with media and the city. The point of the protest was lost to the violence, fires, and looting.

[Loki Liesmith]

1. That's what the Black Bloc does

[cilla4progress]

2. Not the 1st time

in Seattle.

Who are these assholes?

[Ex Lurker]

4. Rich kids with trust funds working out their daddy issues nt

[backscatter712]

11. Neo-Nazis and Proud Boys.

The white-supremacists organize this shit on places like 4chan, then they road-trip to places like Minneapolis to cause mayhem.

[orleans]

3. i'm watching this stream

and a black woman was just interviewed
saying she was so sad that she wasn't able to protest -- (the curfew)
and that the anarchists have taken over. she said she did a lot of videoing and all these people she saw breaking windows and more (i forget) were the anarchists.

oh, here's the stream

[LisaM]

5. It always is.

Every. Single. Time.

[KT2000]

6. Yep -

they did it at the 1999 WTO protest too. That is so sad.

[msongs]

7. if the legit protestors went home at sunset this could end rather soon nt

[backscatter712]

8. By "anarchy" or "Black Bloc", I assume you actually mean neo-nazi or Proud Boy...

Seems to me we're seeing a lot of extreme-right chuds out instigating right now.

[killaphill]

9. This is being led by white supremacists

Not anarchists.

[backscatter712]

12. Indeed.

[nolabear]

10. They might be involved but little boy anarchists are a serious problem here.

They’ve screwed up many a May Day demonstration and were a WTO nightmare.

They’re not left or progressive or for anything but anarchy. They make every legit protest a problem.

[LisaM]

13. And in Portland, too.

It's difficult to convey to people who don't live here, but they're a scourge. It did screw up WTO.

[uponit7771]

14. Looks like a lot of this going around