May Day

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.

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.

May Day in Seattle is a tale of two rallies. In this photograph from the May 1, 2015 rally held by various immigrant rights groups, in front of the Federal District Courthouse in downtown Seattle, with a street use permit from the city, a group of rally attendees held posters from an organization called  "Northwest Immigrant Right Project" at nwirp.org.