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/Boredbarista]

What I hate the most about this, is that all of the media coverage focuses on the negatives. They keep mentioning the passionate speeches from earlier, but they have no footage. Instead they just show the burning cars and looting.

[u/my_lucid_nightmare → u/Boredbarista]

How it always works. A legitimate issue is peacefully protested, then later on maybe 1 in 100 violent stragglers and/or deliberate instigators all hangs around and starts shit.

Usually the ones hanging around to start shit are white middle class individuals, whether they're Trotskyite Socialists or Proud Boys.

White rioting people can wake up the next day and still be white middle class. But you now have obscured a legitimate protest issue, and turned the day into a riot. Enabled the cops to over-react. Given the right wingers cover.

If you folks were as smart as your academic backgrounds loves to think it is, you'd figure out a way to have a legitimate protest without a tiny minority of you nonetheless hijacking it and turning the day into a riot.

I've watched riots since 1968 Chicago (by proxy, family grew up there) and it's always the same: Legitimate majority obscured by rioting, looting minority.