OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — Officers arrested five people during an anti-police march in Seattle, a day after 29 people were taken into custody during a protest in Olympia.
Seattle Police spokeswoman Renee Witt said the five were arrested during a march in the Capitol Hill neighborhood Friday afternoon for investigation of crimes ranging from trespassing to inciting a riot.
On Thursday night, 29 people were arrested after an anti-police march in Olympia turned violent. Police Cmdr. Tor Bjornstad said the march involved about three-dozen people dressed in black, wearing masks and calling themselves anarchists. The group spray-painted the camera of a photographer for The Olympian newspaper, broke windows and threw newspaper boxes into the street.
Bjornstad said there was no identifiable group responsible for the demonstration, but most of the marchers were college age. He said it may be related to similar protests in Portland, Ore., where hundreds have marched through downtown streets in recent weeks to decry two fatal shootings by officers.
