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SEATTLE -- Some May Day protestors are running rampant in Downtown Seattle, smashing windows at businesses and cars as they marched through city streets Tuesday afternoon.
Video from Air 4 has shown smashed windows at a Wells Fargo, a Downtown Federal Courthouse, and Niketown, among others.
KOMO News reporter Joel Moreno says he and his photographer had been hit with a paint bomb while covering the march and ensuing riot.
He says about 50 people clad in all black outfits were throwing paint at buildings and cars, marking the anarchist symbols, "but there were certainly others not dressed in black participating in criminal behavior."
The march itself began with about 200 people and then the group in black inserted itself into the middle of the parade body.
"They wasted no time," Moreno said. "They went about two blocks before they started damaging property."
Moreno said that's when he was hit with a paint bomb. But up ahead he started hearing glass shatter.
"We turned the corner and saw large storefronts at Wells Fargo smashed in," he said. "We saw a firebomb of some sort at the U.S. Court of Appeals where they went in and bashed the windows." Moreno said it looks like a firebomb was lobbed inside: "We saw smoke coming from inside the windows."
As protestors smashed windows at Niketown, store owners at nearby American Eagle store blocked their doors while customers were still inside in an effort to keep rioters out.
Police were using pepper spray, said a Seattlepi.com photographer who was caught in a melee.
Protesters who are violent and destructive are criminals, plain and simple.
It really is not that plain and simple.
Frequently, police forces are ordered by their masters to cause the protesters to become violent and angry. One, old police tactic is to plant their people undercover among protestors to cause trouble so people overlook violent police crackdowns. These undercover operatives may start hurling rocks through windows and at the police, which causes the public to ignore it when the police brutally attack the protestors, effectively shutting down the protests.[SIZE=3][/SIZE]
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