May
01
2015
In this photograph from May 1, 2015 in Seattle, captured near dusk during that year's May Day Anarchist / Block Bloc protest and city street mayhem, a large group of Seattle Police officers formed a bicycle barricade across Olive Way just east of the Olive Way bridge over the Interstate-5 expressway, where Olive Way crosses into downtown Seattle. Moments after this photograph was taken, Seattle Police opened fire onto the large crowd of "Anarchist", mostly masked "Black Bloc" protesters, with sonic stun grenades and so called "blast ball" grenades. Then the Seattle Police hosed down protesters with large quantities of pepper spray that spewed outward from large red aerosol canisters.
