MayDay Protest
 

Seattle was having a peacefuly May Day protest today and it got out of control. So far Nike town was trashed and they are still going strong.

Windows broken, pepper spray at Seattle May Day protests | KING5.com Seattle

As long as cheesecake factory was unharmed.

meanwhile in NYC

May Day Protests ohhhhhh i was wondering why there seemed to be so many protests being covered on the news ;)

Mariners lost already??

:suspicious:

6:25 #MayDay rally marching on Howe to Robson to Burarrd to Hastings. Expect rolling closures for the protest in Downtown #Vancouver.

from news1130

OBAMA 2012

One of the cops driving behind today's mayday march downtown:

"Just another day in Vancouver, huh?"

SEATTLE (NEWS1130) - A family from Vancouver has been victimized by violent May Day riots in Downtown Seattle.

Their car was smashed up as protestors ripped up and down 6th Avenue.

"This is a real welcome to Seattle," Sam, who didn't want to use his full name, told KOMO News.

In a scene similar to Vancouver's Stanley Cup riot, people are taking photos of the destruction with their phones.

Some of the protestors saw Sam's BC license plate and have been mouthing him off.

"I don't know why everyone is wanting pictures of my car, I don't know why they got to mouth off at me and tell me 'Go back to Canada hoser,'" he exclaims.

He adds that Seattle police officers just stood by and watched as so-called anarchists smashed storefront windows.

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Protestors in black masks and carrying torches surrounded by Vancouver Police on Broadway and Clark. Reporter heading to the scene.

Fucking scumbags. I apologize if this sounds rash, if I was in the guy's shoes, I would have just floored it and got out of there, regardless if anyone got run over in the process. I support peaceful protests within reason, but once things start getting destroyed, IMO they're completely fair game to get hurt or be subject to police brutality.

My family friend who works in seattle said its terrifying to see his hometown for 60+ being destroyed.

That intersection is where I always go shopping, macys, nordstrom etc...makes me feel bad for that vancouver family being tormented.

Hope all victims are safe.

Never underestimate the stupidity of people in large groups.

if you're using violence as a solution then you are no better then they are.

These black block losers need to be destroyed from the inside. They have done nothing but drag down protesters rights and give marches a bad name. Send a cia undercover agent in their little group and discover their plots before they happen, similiar to what they did in Battle Of Seattle. Sure they're pests, but soon or later they will do something incredibly sinister.

"I don't know why everyone is wanting pictures of my car, I don't know why they got to mouth off at me and tell me 'Go back to Canada hoser,'" he exclaims."
Stay classy Murika. Every time I go there I find disrespectful asshats saying stuff like this. Last time they called my canadian money "Useless and hideous." The time before that was at a seahawks game where the fans behind me found it insulting that there was a canadian soldier and flag on the field.

what's a may day protest? what r people protesting? can someone fill me in

Vancouver's May Day rally took a turn for the worse as protestors set a large fire in the middle of Commercial Drive and Charles Street late Tuesday.

Riot police ordered the assembly to disperse after 40 to 50 protestors — some donning black masks — lit a fire near the intersection.



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Fucking idiots. Where's the rubber bullets when you need them? These are not protestors, these are troublemakers. To hell with them.

The may day protest started with people celebrating their harvest in november. But if the harvest was bad, then they must sacrafice someone on may 1st in order to have a decent harvest that year. To reverse the bad luck of the harvest. After countless bad harvests and a lot of beheadings/stonings/embalmings, the people started to get frustrated. So they started protesting. It used to be just for the farmers, now every so called under payed union jack off gets involved. Here's a prime example of what used to happen.

from wikipedia

One May Day protester has been arrested for assaulting a police officer in the area of Commercial Drive and Charles Street, according to a police scanner monitoring report.

Read more: Occupy protestors dispersed from Commercial Drive

Dafuq, some how a national Holiday was turned into a riot?!

Its supposed to celebrate, not destroy.

Same. The lives of my family and my property take precedent over my need to not run over people I don't know and paralyze them.

If you didn't want to never walk again, you should've stayed the fuck away from my car.

Just left Seattle a couple of hours ago. I was fortunate to have done my shopping downtown on Monday and avoided this.

Bloody disgrace. I'm so sick and tired of these unemployed fucktards and their protest. No one gives a shit about the so called "99%" because the actual 99% is at work and not out destroying shit.