We haul in street closed sawhorse signs while others roll dumpsters uphill. The intersection is a magnet for actions and activists. It goes on for a long while. Reports come in from other fronts, about rubber bullets and paint guns breaking up the last intersection. About how a deranged protester charged the police line and wailed a SPD urban assault vehicle with his fists.
Someone brings in a stack of newspapers and dumps it in the street to start a fire with.
3 uniformed UPS employees take turns posing in front of it for the Fun Saver. A good portion of protesters sport gas masks. There's this one guy who just stands in front of the cops in a meditation pose as the toxic vapor rises up mystically around him. Pooof Pooof more canisters are lobbed at us. Michele has contacts on which are bad news with teargas, but she also sports goggles, so she's fairly ok Someone of the canisters are thrown back at them, everywhere people are hacking and spitting and puking, I am stung but not hellishly.