From the beginning of Seattle’s protests against what’s going on in Ferguson, Missouri, there have been some ideological tensions—particularly between those brought into the streets by Ferguson specifically and those who see Ferguson as a means to a prescribed revolutionary end.
For example, on the night of November 24, after the Ferguson grand jury’s decision not to charge Officer Darren Wilson in the shooting death of Mike Brown, a freshman at the University of Washington’s Tacoma branch named Fadumo Abdirahman joined a march that began at Westlake Park and wound through Capitol Hill and the Central District. Along the way, he noticed the anarchists and revolutionary communists in the crowd. “I don’t know if they all care about the case,” Abdirahman remarked, “or if they’re just here for their own causes.”
