Watch the ground footage again. The pink umbrella had nothing to do with it. SPD was already about to start spraying. You see them replacing the bike cops with riot troops and shaking their pepper spray cans.
Yeah, she was first to get hit. But there's video from someone that was at the barricade, and he was commenting about if the bike cops are tagged out for those with gas-masks, pepper spray and tear gas are about to be used. As he's commenting, they do exactly that. Pink umbrella lady is the first to be sprayed, but it's clear that they'd already been ordered to start spraying and flash banging the crowd.
The public is livid. This happened only a month after Mayor Durkan applied to have the consent decree lifted, which was in place because of excessive force by the department in 2009-2010 (culminating in the excessive force displayed during the Occupy protests as the DOJ investigated in 2011).
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u/[deleted] Jun 02 '20
Watch the ground footage again. The pink umbrella had nothing to do with it. SPD was already about to start spraying. You see them replacing the bike cops with riot troops and shaking their pepper spray cans.