I have no idea what happened in Pioneer Square. I do know what was broadcast. It is premature to see race as a motivation. It is doubtful that any motivation will be established. I believe the Seattle Police Department arrested 11 individuals, while the New Orleans Police Department arrested over 400.
Arrest seems to be a fairly effective deterrent for drunken, violent stupidity.
It's no secret that your paper is widely ridiculed, even hated. Still, I feel it necessary to add to what surely must be a tsunami of bitterly disappointed correspondence. The smug preachings of this limey wanker, who thrives on cheap controversy, are merely another reason for Seattleites to reject the local culture's recent history of irony and negativity. You belittle yourselves even further than is customary when you print boring, hateful crap that serves only to validate the ego of a crusty hack who apparently hasn't heard that America long ago made short work of bitch-slapping his socially and culturally irrelevant country. Of course, I am comforted by my suspicion that Mr. True's article was written by the same idiots who drunkenly compose the fictitious I, Anonymous each week.