Accounts from activist OTG indicate that things were tense most of the day.
Trans activist held a counter event on the opposite side of Cal Anderson park with live punk bands and scenes of trans joy, the very thing the fash hoped to erase.
Meanwhile black bloc protesters disrupted the right wing event. OTG reports indicate the cops began pouncing on black bloc activist as soon as they approached the hate event. Seemingly for no reason mass arrests began taking place.
As the initial mass arrests started, apparently for getting too close to the fash event, police took on an increasingly aggressive and agitated stance attempting to keep counter protesters out.
In this clip of SPD forming a line former Seattle city council candidate Aaron Marshall is seen wielding a 40 mm teargas launcher. I wonder why that fascist pig lost his election 🤔