The 2010 October 22nd protest (Image: CHS)
It’s always a little bit odd when issues like police brutality get reduced to traffic alerts but here’s notice of Tuesday night’s annual protest at Seattle Central from SDOT. You can learn more about the rally and planned — and permitted — march on the October 22 Coalition To Stop Police Brutality- Seattle Facebook event page. Recent October 22nd events in Seattle have been relatively peaceful. In 2010, large crowds joined the march in the wake of the John T. Williams killing by SPD. Seattle’s police force is now subject to a Department of Justice consent decree after findings about the department’s use of force and treatment of minorities.
Stop Police Brutality National Day of Protest Tomorrow
SEATTLE – Tomorrow, October 22, is the National Day of Protest to Stop Police Brutality. Here in Seattle, an expected 110 participants will gather for an hour-long rally at 5:30 p.m. at the Seattle Central Community College (SCCC). At 6:30, the protestors will march from Broadway and E Pine Street, south on Broadway to E Pike Street; east on Pike to 12th Avenue; south on 12th to E Union Street; east on Union to 13th Avenue; north on 13thto E Pine Street; west on Pine to 12th Avenue; north on 12th to E Olive Street; west on Olive to 11th Avenue; south on 11th to E Pike Street, west on Pike to Tenth Avenue; north on Tenth to E Pine Street; west on Pine back to SCCC. Seattle Police will escort the marchers. Motorists should anticipate possible traffic delays especially on Pine, Pike, and 12th Avenue. http://www.october22.org/
Yay, an all but random march through cap hill snarling the end of the evening commute and any attempt at leaving one’s home for any reason tonight.
Way to draw support by annoying practically every one in South Cap Hill/East Pike/Pine?? Kids. Countdown to broken windows, tagging, shoplifting and mountains of trash all over the neighborhood. Black Coffee CoOp afterparty?
People will be rallying and marching because they are not going to accept 100s of people murdered by police every year and because they care about our youth be racially profiled and because they don’t want people suffering in solidarity confinement in 6 by 9 foot cells in prison. They are marching because they care about humanity, go to facebook for October 22 Coalition to Stop Police Brutaliy Seattle to learn more. Come to the rally at 530pm at Broadway and Pine. See you there!
Oh please, I just saw them go down 11th Ave chanting “fuck the police!”. Way to bring about a mature discussion.
If anything, they shouldn’t get much sympathy around Cap Hill. The SPD’s impotence to deal with the crime around Cal Anderson has me ready to protest insufficient force.
Honestly, police brutality has been lacking around Capitol Hill lately. Last I checked Cal Anderson is filled with violent drug addicts and most people wont even walk there at night.
Police brutality? Really? Where? I can name maybe two real incidents in Seattle over the last two years. Racial profiling? It seems like 90% of the crimes reported on CHB are committed by groups of black teenagers. This is not a lie, go look it up yourself.
Overall: Less anarchists please. You people contribute nothing to the neighborhood aside from actively making it worse by rioting with some regularity. You bring nothing positive or constructive to the conversation about how to make Capitol Hill a better place. Fuck the police rallies are a waste of everyone’s time.
Amen Eric.
Amen also Eric. Only about 70 people participated in this march, so I guess there isn’t that much concern about “police brutality” in Seattle. Yes, there has been very infrequent use of inappropriate force, but the incidence is miniscule, and mostly the SPD does a great job.
When anarchist-types talk about “police brutality,” what they really mean is that the police officers are trying to stop their illegal behavior, and the poor “victims” just don’t like that.
Eric – thanks for baiting the race issue. I am always interested by the absence of black people in these marches and discussions on this topic.
As a well educated, traveled and read black person, I can assure you that the world and these problems are much larger than your Capitol Hill bubble.
Get out much?
I disagree that Eric is “race-baiting.” He simply stated a fact….that the vast majority of street muggings/assaults in our neighborhood are being perpetrated by young black males. Do you deny this reality?
Police brutality and racial profiling are rampant in this country. Just because you don’t experience it in your white, upscale neighborhood doesn’t mean it isn’t happening. The ignorant out-of-sight out-of-mind mentality of the posters above is abhorrent.
“there has been very infrequent use of inappropriate force” Is the person who posted this line aware of the fact that Seattle is currently under the scrutiny of the US Department of Justice for just that?
“…your white, upscale neighborhood …” I think you are confusing Capitol Hill for Clyde Hill.
“…Is the person who posted this line aware of the fact that Seattle is currently under the scrutiny of the US Department of Justice for just that?”
I’m fairly certain that calhoun is aware of the DoJ investigation from a year or so ago.
Of course I am aware of the DOJ investigation. My point was not that excessive force by the SPD does not exist, but that it is infrequent.
There’s a real simple way to avoid any possibility of excessive force…..just obey our laws.