Some demonstrators lingered after officers filed into the department’s East Precinct around 1 a.m., but most cleared out a short time later
Authorities said rocks, bottles, fireworks and mortars were thrown at officers as they attempted to clear the area using flash bangs and pepper spray over the course of several hours stretching into Saturday night.Seattle police Chief Carmen Best called for peace at a late-night news conference, and told reporters she hadn’t seen U.S. agents the Trump administration dispatched to the city at Saturday’s protest.
Thousands of protesters had initially gathered peacefully near downtown in a show of solidarity with fellow demonstrators in Portland, Oregon, where tensions with federal law enforcement have boiled over during protests stemming from the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis. After the fire at the construction site authorities said they had ordered people to leave a different area, in a section of Capitol Hill, near downtown, where the East Precinct is. At least one person broke through a fence line at the precinct, authorities said, and moments later a device explosive that left an 8-inch hole in the side of the precinct.Earlier this month police cleared the “Capitol Hill Occupied Protest” zone after two fatal shootings.
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