While covering protests in Seattle I got gassed again and hit with probably pepper spray because I couldn't see, my eyes were burning and my respiratory system was in distress as I coughed and stumbled off to get away from the chemical agents used on the crowd by police.
Protesters built barricade of burning dumpsters at the original site of #CHOP (Capitol Hill Occupied Protest) at 11th and Pine - one block from the East Precinct station. Police attacked with blast ball grenades/pepper spray, etc. U can use my video with attribution.
Here's the point where everything went off last night. Seattle police attacked protesters with blast ball grenades which exploded with a loud bang and shot out fire/sparks then dispersed a noxious gas. It was nasty! While covering the events as a journalist I got caught in the middle of it. You can use my video with attribution.
Some cops physically attacked the crowd, grabbing umbrellas, etc. They arrested some folks and pinned them to the ground with three or four cops on top of them. It looked very painful!
Later in the evening police had issued a disbursal order to a crowd of people at Cal Anderson Park but after a long tense stand off the police retreated, de-escalating the situation. After that most people left the area.
Mark Taylor-Canfield from Seattle is a weekly guest at The Jeff Santos Show broadcasting from Boston. He blogs at Daily Kos, reports and serves as Contributing Editor for Democracy Watch News and is a guest columnist at The Capitol Hill Times.
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Mark Taylor-Canfield has blogged and written articles at HuffingtonPost.com, DailyKos.com, Tuthout.org, OpEdNews.org, Alternet.org, Oximity.com, OpenSalon.com, etc.
His articles and news reports have also been published by:
The Seattle Times, India's First Post, Washington Free Press, Medium,
The Tablet, Counter Punch, The Tentacle, The Evergreen, The Canadian, Crosscut, etc.
Mark is a frequent contributor to natl media programs -
Thom Hartmann Program (Free Speech TV), Mike Malloy Show (Atlanta), Jeff Santos Show (Boston), Leslie Marshall Show (Washington, D.C.), Norman Goldman Show (Los Angeles), Nicole Sandler Show (South Florida), etc.
He is a Guest Columnist at The Capitol Hill Times.
Mark is a Contributing Editor for Democracy Watch News, and
Associate Editor of The International Collaborative Media Alliance.
Mark's Youtube channel is called MTC TV Media.
Reporter and former member of the international Steering Committee at Free Speech Radio News, Pacifica Radio Network ([ Ссылка ]).
The following news agencies have interviewed him or reported on Mark Taylor-Canfield:
Associated Press, BBC, CBS News, The Guardian, NPR, The Washington Post, The Guardian, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Seattle Times, Los Angeles Times, Capitol Hill Times, Canadian TV News, and other international media.
He edits his own free online newspaper @ paper.li - Global News Feed
Mark is a tireless advocate for freedom of the press.
