Thirteen of the 22 people arrested Wednesday during an immigration protest downtown will be arraigned tomorrow at King County Jail on pedestrian interference misdemeanor charges. The Seattle City Attorney’s office says the protesters were blocking streets near the Federal Building at Second Avenue and Madison Street. Eight others who pleaded not guilty to the charges Thursday will appear for a pre-trial hearing July 26 at the Seattle Municipal Court. The City Attorney’s office refused to charged a 17-year-old, because as a juvenile he is under King County’s jurisdiction. The City Attorney’s office is consolidating the cases of those arrested. About 150 to 200 people protested in support of federal immigration reform, causing traffic to come to a halt for several hours.
Immigration Protesters Charged With Pedestrian Interference
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What do you have to do to merit felonious pedestrian interference?
blocking traffic will certainly help the little brown people
Good. Disrupting traffic in the middle of a sanctuary city that’s a bastion for lecture (the city council voted unanimously to boycott most business with Arizona) is not only stupid, it’s douchey.
Congrats to those dingbats: they’ve made me less supportive of immigration reform.
Oops… a bastion for lefties. Damned auto-correct.
2nd AVENUE and Madison STREET. Transplant, anyone?
@5: Born and raised here, and that’s what I call them. Is there some hip, locals-only name for those roadways that I don’t know about?
@6: The Stranger “writer” corrected it, the piece originally read “2nd Street and Madison Avenue”.
I was walking around down there and they didn’t “interfere” with me. Not like the parish priest once did.