Sydney Brownstone
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first heard Sep 2026
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And then there are the big annual workers' rights protests, like May Day, where reporters are used to covering what we call smashy-smashy.
There's usually a mainstream march, rallies, families with kids.
And then at the margins...
are a few more radical protesters who are breaking windows of corporations downtown.
There's even a song about it.
So while Seattle is the kind of town where protests are a family activity, we're also known for having an edgier side.
there was the police response.
first weekend, they were already breaking out the tear gas and blast balls at a scale we hadn't seen here since WTO more than 20 years
In one instance, when police pepper sprayed a crowd, they hit a seven-year-old.
Someone videotaped the aftermath.
That got a lot of people paying attention because families were used to bringing out their kids to protests here safely.
This was a sign something had changed.
Omari partnered with us to help piece together what made Seattle so unique during the protests of 2020.
He was on the front lines of one of the biggest confrontations in Seattle that summer, Pink Umbrella Day.
Protesters didn't back off.
The crowd swells.
Hundreds of protesters press up against the metal barricade.
They're chanting for police to let them march past.
As they press on the barricade, it starts to bend.
On the other side are dozens of police and National Guard.
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