Seattle police claim that protesters attempted to trap them inside a precinct other demonstrators were setting on fire in an ‘attempted murder’ attempt Monday night. Surveillance footage from the incident appears to show protesters stacking up plywood against the East Precinct door as the fire is set nearby. Cops released images of the door they … Read more
Coronavirus had likely already spread to thousands of people in Seattle before the Washington city became home to the first known US case of COVID0-19, new research reveals. University of Texas (UT), Austin, scientists created a model to estimate how many people had coronavirus based on recently re-tested samples taken from hundreds of samples take … Read more
A Black Lives Matter protester has been shot dead during a march in Austin as a youth detention center and police precinct have been torched in Seattle and demonstrators gather again in Portland amid stand-offs with Donald Trump’s federal agents. One protester was shot and killed when gunshots were fired during a protest in downtown … Read more
The City of Seattle held a segregated training session for white staffers last month in which they instructed workers on how to ‘undo their whiteness’ and affirm their ‘complicity in racism’, reports suggest. Titled ‘Interrupting Internalized Racial Superiority and Whiteness’, the training session was reportedly held by the Office of Civil Rights on June 12, … Read more
Two women were struck by a white Jaguar whose driver sped through a protest-related closure on a freeway in Seattle, authorities said early Saturday. A 24-year-old woman from Seattle suffered critical, life-threatening injuries and a 32-year-old woman from Bellingham had serious injuries, Washington State Patrol Captain Ron Mead said. The driver, a 27-year-old man from … Read more
Seattle police on Wednesday reclaimed their precinct in the city’s ‘occupied’ protest zone after the mayor finally issued a 2am executive order to vacate the area. At least 13 people were arrested at the Capitol Hill Organized Protest (CHOP) zone which has seen two deadly shootings and crime rise by more than 500 per cent … Read more
Armed security inside Seattle’s ‘occupied’ protest zone fired 300 rounds on the night they shot dead a black 16-year-old boy driving a Jeep, according to one eyewitness. Volunteer medic Marty Jackson described the area as an ‘active war zone’ and said: ‘I don’t think we’re gonna stop here.’ New footage from inside the Capitol Hill Organized Protest (CHOP) zone … Read more
One man has been killed and another wounded following a gun battle inside Seattle’s CHOP zone after witnesses say the two men drove into the area and started shooting but protesters returned fire. Police said the deadly shooting unfolded just before dawn on Monday in the city’s Capitol Hill Organized Protest (CHOP) zone. One of … Read more
President Donald Trump compared some U.S. cities to Afghanistan as he blasted protesters attempting to pull down statues as ‘troublemakers’ and ‘anarchists’. Speaking in a Fox News interview with Sean Hannity on Thursday night, the president claimed that living in cites like Chicago, Detroit, Oakland and Baltimore was ‘like living in hell’ as he called … Read more
A black driver who started selling T-shirts on the back of a viral video in which he accused a white woman of using the n-word in a traffic row has defended his right to profit from the incident. Karlos Dillard blasted his critics Wednesday saying white people ‘profit off of everything black people do in … Read more