Police and sheriff’s deputies clad in riot gear fired at least four rounds of pepper spray in an hour after asking the demonstrators several times to stop, authorities said. No one was arrested, but paramedics were dispatched to treat some activists.
Dozens of demonstrators crouched in the port plaza, dousing each other’s eyes with water and offering slices of onion to soothe their throats.
“It burned. I couldn’t open my eyes for 20 minutes,” said Rachel Graham, among those hit. “My face is burning. I dunked my face in water and in Puget Sound.”
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“The majority were very peaceful, nonviolent, just exercising their constitutional rights,” sheriff’s Capt. Bradley Watkins said.
Same as it ever was. We have a government that divides the nation and separates us from the rest of the world. Demonstrators can be pretty stupid when mob rule kicks in. I mean, what good is busting through a fortified gate into the port? You can’t do anything inside that you can’t do outside. And the cops … well, they are cops because they get a certain satisfaction from inflicting punishment.
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