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Fire Walk With Me

(38,893 posts) Thu May 2, 2013, 01:03 AM May 2013

Police create mayhem in Seattle today with snatch and grab arrests, flash grenades:

Occupy Wall Street ‏@OccupyWallSt

Police create mayhem in Seattle today with snatch and grab arrests, flash grenades:
http://ow.ly/kCVVO

OccupyDenver ‏@OccupyDenver

RT @youranonlive: PHOTO: Explosion from police munition. Wild scene in downtown Seattle.

https://twitter.com/joshtrujillo/status/329802386933678081/photo/1

RT ‏@RT_com

Seattle Police confirmed usage of pepper spray against #MayDay protesters. One journalist reported being hit
http://on.rt.com/uvup14

Grenade thrown by police at protesters:

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=549287465113984&set=a.256913927684674.62537.254620607914006&type=1&relevant_count=1&ref=nf

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Police create mayhem in Seattle today with snatch and grab arrests, flash grenades: (Original Post) Fire Walk With Me May 2013 OP

his royal highness barack obama has declared today as "loyalty day" - great day to gas the peasants msongs May 2013 #1

The pigs were getting bored after the first march didn't give them anything to do. Scootaloo May 2013 #2

The Police preformed perfectly bahrbearian May 2013 #3

whose orders warrprayer May 2013 #4

msongs

(70,170 posts)

1. his royal highness barack obama has declared today as "loyalty day" - great day to gas the peasants

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Thu May 2, 2013, 03:32 AM

May 2013

Scootaloo

(25,699 posts)

2. The pigs were getting bored after the first march didn't give them anything to do.

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Thu May 2, 2013, 03:47 AM

May 2013

bahrbearian

(13,466 posts)

3. The Police preformed perfectly

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Thu May 2, 2013, 07:12 AM

May 2013

until they decided to block Olive Street and confronted the protesters who were generally peaceful. If they let them continue the march they would have ended up at their start and it would have ended. but NO they had to show the public what they had been practicing for months, Bicycle Crowd Control. Jerks

warrprayer

(4,734 posts)

4. whose orders

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Thu May 2, 2013, 12:01 PM

May 2013

were they acting on?

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