Mastodawn

Today hundreds of homophobic anti-trans haters swarmed Seattle's Capital Hill gayborhood on the exact same spot that the Black Lives Memorial Garden (#BLMG) once stood as a symbol against hate.

Last year Seattle Mayor Bruce Harroll razed the garden because it became a site of regular Mutual Aid outreach. The mayor claimed the garden was a disruption to the peace and had it destroyed!

https://partyon.xyz/@nullagent/111653304263261896

#Seattle #LGBTQIA #PNW #TransLivesMAtter #BlackLivesMatter #ACAB

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nullagent May 25

So today hundreds of conservatives from the other side of the state descended on Seattle led by disgraced WA Republican politician, domestic terrorist, and right wing extremist Matt Shea.

He failed at violently overthrowing WA state and for some reason is still allowed outside of jail cell.

He now leads a brand of hate targeting trans people and leads events where KKK members and neo-Nazis would be at home.

#MattShea #WA #PNW #Seattle #MAGA #fascist

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nullagent May 25

It took all the cops SPD could muster to enable the right wing terrorist led event to go on uninterrupted.

Seattle cops arrested 18 to 30 people who were protesting the anti trans event.

The arrests were extremely violent and at least one person was sent to the hospital. I'm getting reports of things like a bike cop headbutting a woman then macing her after she was down and possibly already handcuffed.

Significant police use of force.

#CalAnderson #BLMG #LGBTQIA #Seattle #SPD #ACAB

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nullagent May 25

First off, if you witnessed or were the victim of police excessive use of force today please please please take the time to file a complaint with the Seattle OPA.

If you have footage that may be important to someone's case or OPA complaint please carefully review and backup ASAP.

If you need assistance with an OPA complaint, want to speak to a reporter or have footage ppl may need please don't hesitate to drop me a DM if you need help with what to do.

https://www.seattle.gov/opa

#Seattle #ACAB

Office of Police Accountability - OPA | seattle.gov

The Office of Police Accountability (OPA) is an independent office within the Seattle Police Department (SPD) which investigates complaints of police misconduct made by members of the community and complaints made internally by members of the Seattle Police Department.

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nullagent May 25

Accounts from activist OTG indicate that things were tense most of the day.

Trans activist held a counter event on the opposite side of Cal Anderson park with live punk bands and scenes of trans joy, the very thing the fash hoped to erase.

Meanwhile black bloc protesters disrupted the right wing event. OTG reports indicate the cops began pouncing on black bloc activist as soon as they approached the hate event. Seemingly for no reason mass arrests began taking place.

#Seattle #ACAB #SPD

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LukefromDC May 27

@nullagent Oh THIS is definately a police riot

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nullagent May 27

This is only a FRACTION of the arrest footage, it was an absolute police trap beyond what i even understood before court watch today.

Speaking to recently released people and eye witnesses indicate the cops used multiple impossible oeders to entrap people into doing arrestable things like touching a fence... By throwing people into the fence then arresting them. Then the fence fell on and near people cause the cops to chase anyone who was hit by the flimsy temp fence 🫠

@LukefromDC

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LukefromDC

@nullagent Bet they'd be screaming if this was the other way around and we'd set a trap for them.

This has been done. Back in 2000 at the RNC Convention in Philly, we had banners strung across streets. Timoney's bike cops pulled out their knives, using them like cavalry sabers as they rode under the banners slashing them down.

Seeing this, some of our best fighters set a trap: another banner was strung across the road, but this one was reinforced with electrical wire. As soon as the bike cops hit it, the wire stopped their knives, and the combination of the wire and banners stopped the bike cops cold. All of them crashed in a single heap of bikes and cops.