19 arrested in ‘black lives matter’ protest on Highway 99
Source: Seattle Times
Posted by Beth Kaiman
The Seattle Police Department says it arrested 19 people in a protest Monday against police brutality that shut down Aurora Avenue North in the South Lake Union neighborhood and sent one officer to the hospital.
Police say one demonstrator assaulted an officer, who was taken to Harborview Medical Center for treatment. The officer was discharged from the hospital by Monday evening.
Police had to saw through pipes locking demonstrators’ arms together on northbound Highway 99, north of Mercer Street, before an approximately two-hour closure starting at Thomas Street could end at around 4:30 p.m. A group of at least 50 people on the roadside sang songs about freedom and justice for Michael Brown, an unarmed black man whose death in a Ferguson, Mo., police shooting has sparked a national movement. Several drivers on Mercer Street and southbound Highway 99 honked in support of demonstrators who waved signs reading “Black Lives Matter.”
Traffic on southbound Highway 99 was temporarily blocked as well.
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Seattle police officers cut apart tubing connecting protesters on Aurora Avenue North. (Lindsey Wasson / The Seattle Times)
Read more: http://blogs.seattletimes.com/today/2015/01/black-lives-matter-protesters-block-traffic-in-south-lake-union/
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