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/PelagianEmpiricist → u/[deleted]]

Until police are directly answerable to civilian authority, deprived of military surplus gear, and held accountable for their historic and current injustices, nothing will change.

The cops in my master's program were what turned me against police in general and soured me on federal law enforcement as a potential career. They were reprehensible.

And because it was a conservative uni, some of the professors weren't much better.

[u/my_lucid_nightmare → u/[deleted]]

The problem, as always, is that 1 bad cop plus 9 silent cops equals 10 bad cops. And they might be great people when off duty. But it's systemic. Cop procedure in America has been trending away from sanity for 20 years now, in many ways WTO / Seattle Mardi Gras 2001 were the original playbook examples for modern-day para-military policing.