Photo: Sy Bean/THE SPECTATOR special to CHS

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Original Report: Protesters are gathering at Seattle Central this afternoon to mark the October 22 National Day of Protest against police brutality. We posted information from organizers about 2010’s Seattle gathering here. The City of Seattle has sent out a bulletin that says officials are expecting around 60 protesters to march from Seattle Central starting around 6:30 Friday night. The East Precinct headquarters at Pine and 12th Ave is expected to be targeted before the marchers head downtown and then to Boren and Howell, the location where JT Williams was shot dead by a Seattle police officer in August.

Friday Night Protest on Downtown Streets

SEATTLE – A protest march with an estimated 60 participants through downtown streets is scheduled for Friday, October 22, starting at 6:30 p.m. The event, for the National Day of Protest to Stop Police Brutality, will start at the Seattle Community College at Broadway and East Pine Street.

This preliminary route is subject to change: The protesters will head east on Pine Street to 12th Avenue where they will have a short stop at the Seattle Police Department East Precinct station. Then they will proceed south on 12th Avenue to East Pike Street, west on Pike to Ninth Avenue, north on Ninth to Pine Street, west on Pine to Westlake Park where they will have a brief stop. From Westlake Park they will continue north on Fourth to Olive Way, east on Olive to Eighth Avenue, and east on Howell Street to Boren Avenue.