Sydney Brownstone
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152 appearances
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first heard Sep 2026
last heard 2d ago
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SWAT officers with gas masks and batons move to the front.
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Protesters use a tactic from Hong Kong, where they would bring umbrellas to shield themselves from pepper spray.
The protesters were shocked by the level of force that they saw.
Seattle police said it was justified.
They released a statement saying they declared a riot because protesters threw rocks, bottles and fireworks and also tried to break through the barricades.
Months later, Seattle's Office of Police Accountability only found evidence of one bottle being thrown.
They determined protesters didn't pose much of a threat.
In fact, the report said police violated their own policy by using pepper spray and other weapons to break up the crowd.
That decision police made to block off protesters at the East Precinct, it would set off a chain reaction.
The aftershocks were still being felt weeks later when Antonio arrived in Seattle.
The protesters, they could just say, look at what police are doing to us.
Look at what police are doing right now.
By showing up, we are eliciting a reaction from police that demonstrates our entire point.
All of this was happening in a leaderless, decentralized way.
The same kind of organizing we've seen in a lot of left-wing mass movements over the years.
But some leaders did emerge organically from the crowd.
Some of these leaders would end up crossing paths with Antonio and show up at key moments in his time here.
But that's still weeks away at this point.
Like Antonio, he grew up steeped in the story of Black civil rights.
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