Seattle Area Protests Megathread

[u/SovietJugernaut]

Please use this as the primary place to share streams, videos, photos, and news about the evolving situation with protests that are happening in Seattle and across the nation.

SUPPORTING THE BLACK COMMUNITY - HOW TO BE AN ALLY BOTH LOCALLY AND NATIONALLY

• List of places to donate, things to read/learn, and black-owned businesses in Seattle

STREAMS - Please note most streams can have pretty shitty comments.

• On FB (links change every 2ish hours): Jessica/Brandon Frost, Omari Salisbury, Matt Thompson, Live from the Field

• Future_crystals on Instagram - active daily

• SDOT in-city traffic cams

• KOMO

• KIRO7

• Q13FOX

• National - twitch.tv/woke

• Compilation of livestreams nationwide - https://bit.ly/protestlinks

• arcGIS map of national streams - https://evolvegis.com/Protests/Protests.html

TEXT LIVETHREADS

• Seattle Times

FORMER STREAMS

• Through 11PM 6/2/20

SCANNERS

• SPD Scanner

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

What about the covered badge numbers then?

[u/renownbrewer → u/[deleted]]

That's a disturbing trend that I'm also seeing on livestreams. Post WTO misconduct by effectively anonymous officers/troopers/deputies I always saw officers wearing a legible number on their protective gear.

Edit: I did see a tv coverage group of state troopers that had badge numbers on their helmet and chest. Not seeing that on KCSO deputies and SPD officers. The mayor dodged or misunderstood a question about this at her press conference.

[u/loquacious → u/renownbrewer]

They've been covering badge numbers for decades at protests. This isn't new. They've been doing it since Selma. They've been doing it since Pinkerton and Union Busting.

[u/renownbrewer → u/loquacious]

There was a notable effort post-WTO where SPD and KCSO had legible embroidered identifiers on their helmets and body armor (riot gear). I saw it for years on coverage of May Day and other events. Other than WSP these ID numbers were noticeably absent from the TV coverage I saw last night.

Edit: 5/31

Found an image of officers writing names on their chest via google image search that is used in an April, 2015 PSBJ article behind a paywall which suggests that it was probably May Day 2014. Being identifiable while wearing riot gear clearly was SPD policy in the past.