The tapes indicate that police were closely monitoring the crowd, with uniformed and plain-clothes officers. At several times in the evening, dispatchers urged officers to retreat from Pioneer Square to put on riot gear. At another point, officers in riot gear are told not to deploy. Sometime during the night, police watched as five men beat a victim, but decided not to move in. There's a white male with a yellow jacket being severely beaten at First and Yesler.
Nobody goes in.
Later, officers hoped the injured man would be dragged to safety. Hopefully, they'll drag him east. It is unknown whether any of the transmissions carry information about the death of Kristopher Kime. Sometime before 1 a.m., Kime was hit in the back of the head and collapsed. Witnesses said Kime was carried out by friends and off-duty firefighters.