Footage has shown protesters in Seattle smash windows at an Amazon Go store and cover it with graffiti. The shop was among many businesses vandalized on Sunday as an anti-ICE rally turned into riots and clashes with police.
The video, filmed by conservative activist Katie Daviscourt shows a group of people attempting to break into an Amazon Go store in downtown Seattle. Masked protesters ram the storefront with different objects and vandalize it with graffiti.
One of the rioters can be seen spray painting “Raze Amazon” on the outer wall of the building, housing the shop.
— Katie Daviscourt🇺🇸 (@KatieDaviscourt) July 19, 2020
The short clip cuts off abruptly after a protester confronts Daviscourt, shouting to her to put her phone down.
Amazon was not the only store that has been damaged in the wave of violent attacks on businesses and police that swept the city shortly after an initially peaceful protest against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency descended into clashes with law enforcement.
Seattle police said that some three hours after the original demonstration ended, a group of people “carrying baseball bats” went on a spree of attacks, damaging businesses, a federal courthouse and two police precincts.
The group appeared to be “well-organized,” as it was engaged in “a joint effort to target specific businesses and government buildings," a police spokesperson said.
Rioters have also ransacked Starbucks, with photos on social media showing damage to yet another coffee shop.
At 3/Pine, a large window has been smashed at Victrola Coffee Roasters. Other windows are spray painted and we’re hearing reports of more damage further south on Pine #KOMONewspic.twitter.com/JPP2WaxP6c
After taking their anger out at private property, the protesters continued marching towards the West Precinct, where they lit fireworks and threw them at officers “from a very close range,” the police spokesperson said, noting that the type of projectiles with which activists attacked police could be lethal.
The devices that they threw can blind, maim and kill people when thrown from this short of a distance
The altercation resulted in 12 officers being injured, including one who had to be hospitalized after suffering a wound to his neck, she said.
This video just sent to me shows protesters at the West Precinct. Fireworks are heard at first and then a few seconds later, it appears that some type of crowd control devices are used by @SeattlePD. At the end, you can see officers moving in on someone #KOMONewspic.twitter.com/2rpI21zPpZ
While police used crowd-control munitions such as glass balls and pepper spray in a bid to deter protesters from further violence, the rioters did not stop at that and headed to the East Precinct which they tried to set up on fire by throwing an object resembling a firecracker inside.
WATCH: Anti-cop Seattle criminals break the windows of the East Precinct, then throw an incendiary device into the lobby. No one was hurt as the device quickly burns out. pic.twitter.com/V0lXwsT1sq
— (((Jason Rantz))) on KTTH Radio (@jasonrantz) July 20, 2020
The blaze was promptly extinguished, resulting in no injuries to personnel.
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