Will James
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first heard Sep 2026
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So here's how we get to Pink Umbrella Day.
Over that first weekend, the protests grew from hundreds of people to thousands.
Four days after the protests started, protesters decided they were going to march past the East Precinct.
That's the Seattle police precinct that covers the historically young, gay, activist-heavy neighborhood of Capitol Hill, and also the historically Black neighborhood that Omari grew up in, the Central District.
The energy of the protests had been converging here.
But on this day, when protesters march up Capitol Hill, they find their path blocked by a line of police officers who had set up a barricade.
Protesters didn't know why the police wouldn't let them march down the street.
But now we know that city leaders were afraid the crowd would burn down the precinct.
It had happened in Minneapolis.
And police all around the country were getting warnings from the federal government that protesters might attack their buildings too.
A protester in the front is holding a pink umbrella.
Multiple protesters and multiple police wrestling over the pink umbrella.
The violence protesters faced on Pink Umbrella Day actually galvanized the movement.
And it becomes less about, we are protesting police brutality nationally, to, we are protesting the Seattle
After Pink Umbrella Day, protesters keep showing up.
For a full week, they try to march past the East Precinct, but police won't let them and keep tear gassing and pepper spraying the crowd.
And a kind of infrastructure, a protest infrastructure, hardens around the area.
There are mutual aid stations, volunteer medics, free food, goggles for the tear gas and pepper spray.
Local businesses open up their restrooms to protesters.
David Lewis was someone who I think most protesters had never heard of before.
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