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.
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.
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.
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.
As the initial mass arrests started, apparently for getting too close to the fash event, police took on an increasingly aggressive and agitated stance attempting to keep counter protesters out.
In this clip of SPD forming a line former Seattle city council candidate Aaron Marshall is seen wielding a 40 mm teargas launcher. I wonder why that fascist pig lost his election 🤔
The cops struggled to keep the dueling protests separated.
From accounts on the ground the vibes were certifiably stonewall.
According to activist with DivestSPD the cops began to provoke the counter protesters by randomly patrolling into the counter protest crowd.
Despite all the cops, beatings, pepper spray and arrests trans activist continued to get into the fascist event to hold pro-trans signs. They loudly booed the fascist speakers as they attempted to speak.
SPD struggled to keep up, the trans people kept getting in.
The cop tactics of separating the crowds were largely unsuccessful. Causing cops to eventually form additional police lines inside of the hate event to prevent counter protesters from getting close enough to crash the stage.
Tensions were very high and SPD called for backup from additional police agencies to help flood the park in cops.
SPD evidently felt they might potentially loose control of the situation, not like they ever had it under control, and ordered the fascists to end their event early bc they literally couldn't protect them for longer.
So today, Seattle fought like hell and wrecked the fascist's plans, allegedly. Had the cops not been there the fascists wouldn't have even stood a chance holding an event here!
#Seattle #TransLivesMatter #ACAB #SPD #LGBTQIA #StonewallWasARiot
There's a lot of comrades in jail tonight here in Seattle.
If you're interested in supporting people arrested today please consider donating to Super UW's bail fund below.
These folks went all out today and this will likely be a long and costly court journey. The defenders of Capitol Hill's gayborhood need your help!
Today's state sponsored hate fest would NOT have been possible if not for the city of Seattle crushing Black led Mutual Aid projects first.
The BLM Memorial Garden and the near daily breakfast program and weekly free grocery events were brutally crushed just like the Black Panther programs which inspired us.
We knew when the city took our garden they had no idea how to better use that space.
Today shows we were right!
Attached: 3 images Happy heavenly birthday to chairman Fred Hampton. Hampton was the visionary behind the breakfast program the Black Panthers were known for among many other projects. It's incredible that he started feeding dozens of kids while he was only 10 himself 🤯 The sheer scale and growth in these programs that Fred achieved in such a short time is literally why there are so many government run school meal programs now. They felt existentially threatened by Black people NOT starving. #FredHampton
I reported tirelessly OTG about the destruction of the #BLMG and how the destruction of Black led spaces, #homeless outreach, #housing rights, the #FreeGaza #StudentSpring and NOW #LGBTQIA community are all under threat by the exact same local politicians!
We ALL share an enemy in Mayor Bruce Harrell, City Council President Sara Nelson, republican city attorney Ann Davidson and of course the Seattle police.
We need more eyes on these ghouls!
What we're seeing on college campuses this week is what the homeless experience on the daily. I've been posting the #BLMG tag about my local homeless neighbors. Here's a few: Supreme court rally https://partyon.xyz/@nullagent/112317474489022213 BLMG Sweep https://partyon.xyz/@nullagent/111449650062083085 Sweep 2 days later https://partyon.xyz/@nullagent/111495005664299415 Sweep the next day https://partyon.xyz/@nullagent/111500692636115976 Xmas Mutual Aid https://partyon.xyz/@nullagent/111646253831326546 City destroys the garden https://partyon.xyz/@nullagent/111653304263261896 Arrests of mutual aid organizers https://partyon.xyz/@nullagent/111666763412202425
Tomorrow is the five year anniversery of the start of the George Floyd protests in Seattle.
SPD really picked one hell of away to start the weekend and I can only imagine tomorrow's events may see even higher attendance than expected.
If you're able to show up for this tomorrow lets make sure SPD and Seattle's shit bad politicians know we have NO tolerance for fascists sympathizing cops!
Overnight the far right church leaders who led the fascist riot in Seattle yesterday vowed a night march starting from their church in U District tonight.
These guys typically march the one block around their church then call it quits. The issue tho is AFTER these events riled up fascists sometimes look for gay people to harass.
Most of their last minute events are a snoozefest, so likely to fizzle tonight imo.
#PursuitNW #WhiteNationalist #fascist #Zionist #FreeGaza #UDistrict
This same church, Pursuit NW, last year led a march of zionist complete with flownin recent IDF soldiers and assailants from the 2024 UCLA zionist riot. They publicly described their event as a "buzzsaw" intended to destroy UW student #Gaza camp.
At the time UW, much like the city of Seattle yesterday, gave the fash event formal blessing and scolded the students to disband to avoid conflict with imported IDF soldiers.
We have an urgent request for court watch support tomorrow, 1pm, for the so far 10 leftist activist facing felony charges for protesting these hate preachers.
It is absolutely critical that we pack these hearings!
If you want to have an impact but don't want to face the risk of arrests or police injuring you THIS is the activism for you!
It's highly effective and literally all you have to do is watch and possibly take notes.
For tomorrow's court watch please be aware the court room itself is fairly small so we hopefully will fill it and spill over into the halls.
So if you get there late please be aware that you may have to stand/sit in the halls and that the judges are made aware of how many people there are.
You will have an impact even if you don't make it in time to snag a court room seat.
So please do arrive early.
Thankfully these aren't 8am hearings!
If you've found my posts helpful please consider throwing me a few bucks.
I've been extremely bogged down with stressors and I need help staying afloat in a good week, and well this wasn't a good week lol.
On top of that, when my friends and neighbors are hurt by the state(yet again) I frequently drop everything to both report on and materially support my community.
Your donations really help me & my family but also to look out for my comrades.
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Seattle's DSA chapter put out this video statement decrying the violent police riot that occurred at Cal Anderson on May 24th.
#Seattle #ACAB #SPD #DSA #SeattleDSA #CalAnderson #PursuitNW #PNW #LGBTQIA #CapitalHill #mayorbruceharrell
Checking in from King County Jail where 10 Seattleites face felony charges in the wake of the combination Christian fascist rally + cop riot
Sadly phones are not allowed into this court so no live tooting, updates when I'm out of court.
https://partyon.xyz/@nullagent/114571520639905596
#courtwatch #spd #acab #seattle #lgbtqia #pursuitnw #pnw #fascists #cops
It's standing room only at the security check point. Direct friends and family are being given priority. No one else is being let in.
Some people who made it in but were listening from the hall (which is typically allowed) were escorted out.
There's around 50 ppl waiting to get in. We've only seen a few ppl let in.
The cops have stopped letting people in. They say they don't have the overflow spaces available and that they are not going to make any more accommodations such as zoom or rooms with a video stream.
Traditional journalist were of course let and are recording the situation at the security checkpoint.
The crowd has swelled to 100+
Update - No charges have been filed by the Seattle City Attorney yet and they were not ready today.
The city must file charges (or drop the cases) by tomorrow evening.
The judge says they will possibly set bail today or release people on "personal recognizance".
The judge should begin bringing in our comrades in as we speak.
CW: using my "I need to speak to your commanding officer voice 🫠"
I continue to watch some journalists be allowed in specifically while other independent outlets are denied.
I and many others saw them deny Seattle Gay News entry and literally minutes later wave King 5 and Fox13 right on in without checking any press badges.
It appears the size of the camera and the stature of the reporter is what they are checking.
I've returned with a press pass.
The cops seem not to recognize it, I mean I know cops can't fly but I was trying to give them the benefit of the doubt on reading skills.
UPDATE - Call both Seattle City Atty and King County!
King County Prosecutor Leesa Manion
PHONE: 206-477-1200
EMAIL: prosecuting.attorney@kingcounty.gov
Seattle City Attorney Ann Davidson
206-684-8200
Major update, we're hearing two people has already had their cases dropped, the city attorney refused to take those two case and they will be released soon.
Please keep calling the city attorney's office(see previous toot)!
There's still a crowd of 100+ and we're really happy to get good news! 🎊🎉
Update - another two conrades were released without bail but may still be charged. The city attempted to set a $10k bail for one of them but thankfully the judge denied.
So we have four comrades coming home later tonight and we're still waiting on word on up to six.
More mostly good news, we're now at 7 total who will be released without bail. 5 of those will likely still faces charges.
However an 8th person had initial bail set at $100k, it's been reduced to $20k after a ba k and forth between their defense and the judge. (Update, bail is being posted as we toot, will be out tonight or tomorrow)
I believe existing bail funds should be able to handle it but will update as we learn more.
One of the people who was released without bail the city tried really hard to keep them in jail because they allegedly broke a cops finger.
Speaking to people who were on the ground at the time its seems this person was punched in the head by an SPD officer, which is how the cop's finger was broken 🫠
So obviously we think a lot of the people who will be back in court will handily beat the charges.
Update - Just got word that the final two people will be released without bail but may still be charged.
Really sounding like the city doesn't have much of a case if they can even get bail placed on more than one person.
Ok heading out, for now. Stay tuned for future court support, this is clearly turning into a larger political football with Donald Trump likely taking an interest in Mayor Bruce Harrell's handling of Saturday's right wing rally.
In echo's of Mayor Jenny Durkan, Harrell is obviously no supporter of leftists activitist and is naturally inclined to crack down on local activist. Much like Durkan, I expect Bruce to attempt to crack down on us more than even Trump desires to keep the right wing happy
Also documenting todays court hearing fedi's own @Haste also was there and was able to get into the hearing.
They confirmed the double standards at play, broadcast media happy let through with full broadcasting equipment but small online journalist immediately gate kept and not allowed any electronics at all even just for notes.
They got a lot of details from memory inside the court, excellent court watch thread @Haste !
Just got word the last two comrades have been released moments ago.
While I was at court watch yesterday comrades at @divestspd worked to identify cops who used excessive force.
Heres reporter Hannah Krieg breaking down this major development.
You can follow and support @divestspd on mastodon.
Meanwhile you can find Hannah's news outlet below.
https://www.theburnerseattle.com
Meanwhile Seattle Gay News filmed this incident https://www.sgn.org
Please consider donating to all three groups
#BrianMuoio #SPD #ACAB #TheBurner #DivestSPD #SeattleGayNews #Seattle #PNW
You can find the records on dirt bag cops like Brian Muoio on SPD.watch, Brian's discipline records below 👇🏿
He's a dirty cop known for unnecessary violence dating back to 2018. Groups like DivestSPD noticed his pattern of assaults years ago. Muoio has 20+ complaints about his fitness to be a cop. Yikes!
@nullagent @divestspd oh shit, he has a use of force complaint with Richard Bonesteel.
I knew I recognized that name
https://www.divestspd.com/p/cop-with-violent-history-threatened
@nullagent @divestspd
Oh, of course they're getting in trouble together. They're both in CRG.
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