May Day in Seattle, 6:30. pic.twitter.com/B435yuhVFo
β brendankiley (@brendankiley) May 2, 2014
The Seattle Police Department's Twitter feed seems to be tracking them closely. Also:
Just saw three late guys in Guy Fawkes masks ask an SPD officer where everyone else went. Officer, from behind a barricade, showed them.
β Eli Sanders (@elijsanders) May 2, 2014
The marchers may number 150 - 200. There are superheroes awaiting them if they end up going downtown. Which they may be doing. As they passed Yesler Terrace, Ansel asked bystanders if they knew what the march was all about. They did not. And then, down Yesler they went:
A couple hundred anticapitalists, including a black bloc contingent, make their way towards Pioneer Square pic.twitter.com/qZwyJ2bw4J
β Ansel (@Ansel) May 2, 2014
Brendan Kiley reports: "Seems like a younger and less organized crowd too. Lots of journalists. The crowd temporarily parted to make way for an ambulance."
Hearing more "fuck the police" than "fuck capitalism." Here's SPD's armored bike bloc following the march, up 2nd now pic.twitter.com/wh6Fn3Fq7B
β Ansel (@Ansel) May 2, 2014
Meanwhile, report of a "smaller cell" still roaming Capitol Hill. And one arrest has been made at Broadway and Pike.
The chant? "All cops are bastards!" Hmm. pic.twitter.com/Vhz2bKPDpq
β Kelly O (@drunkoftheweek) May 2, 2014
Um, Kelly, those are the same guys I saw doing this!
Sounds like the two groups have met up... for a dance party on Pike?
Two groups meet on Pike and suddenly this is a much bigger march (with music!) #seamayday pic.twitter.com/WXGQu5f5sV
β Ansel (@Ansel) May 2, 2014
Kelly O: "All this walking and cop-hating is tiring. If I stop for a burrito, am I bad person?"
Uh-oh:
Officers moving in to break up a moving fight between superheroes and anarchists. #SeaMayDay
β Seattle Police Dept. (@SeattlePD) May 2, 2014
It's superheroes versus marchers out here at #SeaMayDay. (Via @seattlepi) pic.twitter.com/kgcKjOaPOL
β Jordan Stead (@jordanbstead) May 2, 2014
Fight broken up. And the march moves on:
May Day, 7:55 pm. A sunset walking tour of the city! pic.twitter.com/00HpovftJN
β brendankiley (@brendankiley) May 2, 2014
Reporter hears some demands issued: "Among the demands from the anti-capitalist march is to slow down. The front is going to fast!"
And as the sun goes down: The pepper spray comes out, a gun is found on someone in the crowd, "officers report seeing anarchists making a wardrobe change into suits and ties," and by 9:40 pm, the march is "back where it started 3 hours ago at Broadway and Pine."