Police getting violent in Seattle right now, live coverage:

[greyl]

[Mersky]

1. Huge clouds of tear gas, flash bangs

Driving protestors away from 11th & Pine

Is excessive, wrongful, and counterproductive to address a protest of police brutality with more police brutality.

[regnaD kciN]

2. It shows that all the talk about the "right to protest" is just so much lip-service...

People have the right to peaceably assemble...but only until the cops decide arbitrarily that "you've had enough time to do so", then it's "go home" or the tear gas and rubber bullets start flying.

[Mersky]

3. I've said nearly the exact thing

Several times over the recent days.

As if tidy and quaint protest would get anywhere. These brave protestors across the country are carrying the message loud and clear that it’s time for policing to change.