[Seattle-editorial] FEATURE proposal : LEIU arrests

[Jeremy Kahn]

Thumbs up. Holy crap.
--j
jonathan lawson wrote:

> Hey. Due to the time-senitive nature of this, I'm going ahead and 
> posting it now. Any objections, please voice and, of course, feel free 
> to edit/add links.
>
> subtitle: MILITARIZED SPD ON DISPLAY FOR LEIU
> title: Undercover Police Provoke Conflict; Legal Observer Shot and 
> Hospitalized
>
> At least twelve people have been arrested following June 2 
> demonstrations against the <a href="http://nobigbrother.net/">LEIU 
> conference</a> in downtown Seattle, near where the secretive private 
> intelligence network is holding its annual conference. In one 
> confrontation between Seattle Police and demonstrators, National 
> Lawyers Guild legal observer Larry Hildes was hospitalized after being 
> shot in the back with "non-lethal" weapons.
>
> <p>Following an early evening rally in Westlake Park, several hundred 
> demonstrators began a nonviolent, permitted march toward the LEIU 
> conference site, the Red Lion Hotel, where cordons of police waited in 
> riot gear. The crowd continued to rally there with music from the 
> Anti-Fascist Marching Band and the Infernal Noise Brigade; some burned 
> and tore US flags. One protester climbed atop a nearby awning and 
> attempted to burn a flag there; as he descended, other demonstrators 
> huddled around him to protect him against identification and arrest. 
> However, one or more of the people in this huddle turned out to be 
> undercover police, and disorder broke out when one undercover cop 
> reportedly provoked a fistfight while attempting to subdue the 
> protester. The police then moved against the dispersing crowd, using 
> pepper spray, concussion grenades, plastic clubs and guns loaded with 
> <a 
> href="http://seattle.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=28100">non-lethal 
> weapons</a>. Several people were seriously hurt after receiving pepper 
> spray in the face. Before being taken to the hospital, Hildes 
> reportedly described the encounter as "the worst he had ever seen.<a 
> href="http://seattle.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=28103">Read 
> more here</a>.
>
> <p> Photos from June 2 march <a 
> href="http://wanska.com/photos/album06">here</a> and <a 
> href="http://seattle.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=28095">here</a>. 
> LEIU coverage on <a href="http://www.radio-x.org/">Radio X</a> daily 
> 4-7pm through June 7
>
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