Anti-police-brutality demonstrators staged noisy protests in Seattle on Friday. ---- A
protester with a painted face, calling himself ?Teal Crayon,? holds a photo of carver John
T. Williams as he talks with a Seattle police officer in Cal Anderson Park.
http://seattletimes.com/ABPub/zoom/html/2020570196.html ---- A group of self-proclaimed
anarchists staged a noisy but otherwise orderly protest Friday against police brutality,
marching from Seattle?s Cal Anderson Park through downtown and back up to Capitol Hill.
--- With dozens of police riding bicycles alongside or trailing behind in cruisers and
vans, the 30 or so protesters walked and rode bikes. Wearing scarves, masks and paint on
their faces, they chanted against police. ---- Although the group walked in the streets
and disrupted traffic at times, police did not move in on them.
A similar gathering at City Hall Park drew an estimated three dozen protesters to what
organizers called the ?March 15th International Day Against Police Brutality.?
There were no arrests, according to Seattle Police Department spokesman Jeff Kappel.
One protester, who asked not to be named, said the police ?treat us like terrorists, and
we?re not.?
She also said that she doesn?t believe she should have to obey laws.
The demonstrators did, however, move politely and quickly out of the way for an ambulance
that turned onto Pine Street with its siren blaring.
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