As the anti war march with horns playing and drums beating moved into the street in front of Wells Fargo Bank on 4th street & Columbia ( I think )
So did the cops
IMMEDIATELY they confronted the group in the street
Within minutes more police on motorcycles and then more in Riot gear
They started pushing the crowd ...ripping their signs from them and yelling get out of the street
The moved their big white van up to the line and were using the speakers to yell stuff
Cops with bikes pushed their bikes towards the peoples..pushing aggressively ...pushing ...pushing....
a few horses came in from the side ...right into the crowd...i dint see them tromp on anyone but they were right butted up to the peoples from around the back side
Soon the pepper-spray was flying
I was on the sidewalk and I got spayed *lightly
my face was burning ...it was in my mouth
All hell was breaking loose
it seemed to me that the cops were pushing HARD
and at the same time trapping and funneling the peoples
the parked car near the curb ...cops pushing with bikes....and very hard to move or go anywhere
When I was sprayed i looked away then looked back to see people all bunched up
They couldn't get out of their street on to the sidewalk ..cause the sidewalk was packed
I was already on it when i started moving further back ..trying to allow room for those "caught"
The cops were yelling "MOVE BACK" but it was hard to move anywhere without just panicking
and shoving people out of the way... you could only move as fast as the next guy was moving
That is when the mace was flying
It seemed right when the peoples were being funneled with hardly room to "Move To" the cops pepper sprayed
I thought it was rather Shitty to mace people who were all trapped and bunched-in
nobody from the antiwar movement were being violent
That street is blocked due to construction all the time
No big deal.... 50 ant-war people stop in the street and the cops want to KICK THEIR ASSES?
Thats cruel and uncalled for ...big deal they blocked the street for 10 minutes
And I need to get maced for it?
Some got it really bad with the spray... I mean they were drenched
I talked to one lady who said the guy spraying mace was out of line when he choose to do that
She was watching him ...she said it was abusive and uncalled for
I seen the city attorney there watching and I told him I was a reporter on the sidewalk
And that I got pepper sprayed and I wasn't even in the street
I was filming at the time I was sprayed ..it may be in my video that will be out soon
There were massive cops... this must of cost the city THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS
They followed the group through downtown .... being less aggressive
I went to my car and cam back the anti war crowd had jumped a MAX and headed to the
NE recruiting station on Broadway
When I got there at the recruiter office there must of been 75 to a 100 activist outside the whole sidewalk was full
Cops all lurking and staring from across the street
A couple few (And the Attorney) were on the recruiting side
The Robo cops were back around the corner ALL GEARED AND READY
the activists played drums chanted and yelled outside the military recruiting office
then lasted for over an hour
It finally disbanded around 5pm (estimated) and was informed everyone to meet over at the jail house
on 3rd @ 6pm
See you there
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