Right-Wing, Left-Wing Protesters Face Off In Seattle

[appalachiablue]

Source: Associated Press

3 hrs. ago.

SEATTLE — Right-wing demonstrators gathered Saturday in Seattle for a "Liberty or Death" rally that drew counter-protesters from the left while dozens of police kept the two sides separated.

The right-wing groups Washington 3 Percenters and Patriot Prayer were holding the rally outside Seattle City Hall to protest an effort to launch a gun-control initiative that would raise the age in Washington state for people buying semi-automatic rifles. The left-wing groups Organized Workers for Labor Solidarity, Radical Women and the Freedom Socialist Party were rallying at the same site.

Hundreds of protesters on each side of the street were separated by Saturday afternoon by metal barriers and police officers as the left-wing protesters yelled and used cow bells and sirens to try to drown out speeches from the right-wing side. Police arrested at least two people on the counter-protester side as the demonstrations continued, but it wasn't immediately clear why.

Additional police also arrived, including police in riot gear with batons who took up positions in the street. Bicycle officers lined up their bikes as a type of moving barrier to keep protesters from entering the street, which remained open to traffic...More...

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The gun-control initiative would raise the age from 18 to 21 for the purchase of semi-automatic rifles, expand background checks for those purchases, require completion of a firearm safety training course and create standards for safely storing firearms. On Friday, a judge on threw out 300,000 signatures needed to put the initiative on the November ballot.
The Seattle protest came two weeks after a Portland, Oregon event where police in riot gear tried to keep right-wing and left-wing groups apart.



A protester stands on the side of the street with members of Patriot Prayer and other groups advocating for gun rights at a rally, Saturday, Aug. 18, 2018, at City Hall in Seattle. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

[samnsara]

1. Seattle is serious about their protests...no 2 doz vs 1000 here....

.. we are not beginners.

[Grassy Knoll]

6. My Friend Is From Seattle...

...And He Said They Would Protest Toast If It Meant Something,

[pangaia]

2. Ignorant fuck with the sign seems to have left out part of that there amendment.

[keopeli]

4. A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people..

A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.

[Turbineguy]

5. Well regulated

means wearing camo gear and tanker goggles.

[rockfordfile]

7. What the hell are those nazi wannabes wearing?

[paleotn]

10. You mean the little faux soldier?

Isn't he cute with his little camo wear.

[pangaia]

12. What Arnold might call a 'sissy man.'

At least I THINK that was a phrase he used for silly, bullying, ignorant cowards.

[EttuBrute]

13. Arnold said

I believe the term was 'girly men'. I am glad he is no longer our Governor.

[keithbvadu2]

3. "infringe"

Like making 3D printed guns illegal?

The Second Amendment does not specify that a gun be detectable.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10142135078

U.S. will prosecute makers of 'undetectable' plastic guns: Sessions

Precedence that gun control is ok.

[alphafemale]

9. Plastic printed guns for Darwin Award nominees.

A good number of whom may possibly die scratching at the plastic shrapnel in their throat while jugular juice sprays on the face of their children.

[ancianita]

11. Because, for once, political leaders' metal detectors leave them "as safe as" the rest of us.

Hilarious how that "protect and defend" the Constitution works with them.

[Grasswire2]

8. why did the judge throw out the signatures? 300,000! nt