Black Bloc

In this photograph from May 1, 2015 in Seattle, captured during that year's May Day Anarchist / Block Bloc protest and street mayhem, a large crowd of mostly masked Black Bloc "anarchists" jeered at the Seattle Police as they marched through the streets of the Capitol Hill neighbordhood's western slope Pike Street and Pine Street corridors. Ironically, a number of the Black Bloc were in various states of "bandanna malfunction" with their faces exposed and their bandanna's down around their necks.

In this photograph from the 2014 Seattle May Day Protest held in north downtown Seattle on May 1, 2014, a group of Marxist / Anarchist protesters display a large "smiley face" flag to express their theme of the day and protest.

In this photograph from the 2014 Seattle May Day protest held in north downtown Seattle on May 1, 2014, masked Marxist / Anarchist Black Bloc protesters carried a large banner with the phrase "die yuppie scum" on it. The masked Black Bloc protesters refused to explain its political significance and/or meaning.

In this photograph from the 2014 May Day Protest in Seattle, a group of Marxist / Anarchist Black Bloc protesters displayed a banner that read "ANTI-CAPITALIST ANTI-STATE". Their banner also contained an Anarchist logo.