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Last Friday night,

Published 7:00 am Monday, September 24, 2012

Protester coming back from the Capitol Hill precinct heading towards downtown.
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Protester coming back from the Capitol Hill precinct heading towards downtown.
Protester coming back from the Capitol Hill precinct heading towards downtown.
From where I was standing it was unclear what provoked officers to use the spray. This picture shows he first use of the spray on the protestors. My best guess was that several protestors tried to cross the makeshift police line in a way that made the officers feel threatened.
Officers continue to spray to clear the area.
Several are down after being sprayed directly with pepper spray. When other protesters tried to come the aid of the fallen, officers sprayed them too.
This man explains the pepper spray incident to other local news agencies.
This man claims that he was not doing anything when he was sprayed.
Friends help each other out of the area after taking a pretty hard hit from the spray.
Police line guarding the Capitol Hill precinct.
Phoenix Jones trying to get protesters to move away from the police line and head the other direction. Jones was trying to de-escalate conflicts between the police and protesters. Some protesters saw him as an enemy to their causes.
Shot taken several seconds before police spray protesters with pepper spray.
Man yelling death threats at the police in front of the jail downtown.
Skate boarding protesters on Capitol Hill.
Protesters claiming the intersection of 4th and Pine.
This man in the car clearly despised the protest, giving the finger to protesters as they walked by. A woman countered his gesture with the peace sign.
This man yells after the marchers manage to block this intersection on Capitol Hill.
Protesters seek support from people on the busses.
A woman yells at the police line on Capitol Hill near the precinct.
View of the procession coming down the street.
I personally was pushed, shoved, spit on, tripped, and almost had my camera stolen. On several occasions protesters threatened me with physical harm despite the heavy police presence.
Protesters marching from downtown to Capitol Hill.
Protesters lead group chants.
Some protesters marched on despite physical handicaps.
Police followed the mob the entire time on bicycles, horses and on foot.
Protest leaders outside the downtown Seattle jail.
An officer prepares for crowd control after an unrelated incident causes a stir in an ally on Capitol Hill. Allegedly someone had been thrown out of a nightclub for urinating on someone else. In the same location protesters were disbanding. This incident became of interest to some of the protesters, so the club's security called the police to help control the situation.
At 4th and Pine protesters gain control of the intersection, blocking traffic by laying down or sitting in the middle of the street.
Many protesters were outwardly aggressive to the press. Calling them snitches, blocking cameras with flags, threatening violence, attempting to steal equipment, and even threatening to use their flag poles as weapons.
An angry protester faces an officer holding the police line by the Capitol Hill police precinct.The protestor repeatedly hurled insults and challenged the officer to hurt him.
Many protesters distributed papers and held up signs expressing their opinions on the Williams shooting, and on police brutality.
Phoenix Jones and his colleagues were seen trying to de escalate confrontations between the police and the protesters.
Protestors stood in front of the Seattle jail downtown giving personal testimonies about police brutality, cursing officer Ian Birk, and professing their views on police.
Protesters in front of the downtown jail.
Protesters outside the downtown jail.
Anarchist at the front of the march.
An Angry masked protester prevents this man from leaving the intersection, after several frustrating minutes he squeezes on by.

Last Friday night,

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