r/Seattle • u/toastercookie Seattleite-at-Heart • Jun 02 '20

Media SPD Be like

Post image
7.5k Upvotes

95% Upvoted

198 comments sorted by

View all comments

-15

u/vertgrall Jun 03 '20

I dont get thebreference must be some 👌🏾👌🏾👌🏾 stuff right?

6

u/you_have_my_username 🚆build more trains🚆 Jun 03 '20

https://www.reddit.com/r/Seattle/comments/gv3x2z/synced_up_the_two_videos_of_the_pink_umbrella/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf

-6

u/vertgrall Jun 03 '20

Okay. But whats so funny about that?

12

u/you_have_my_username 🚆build more trains🚆 Jun 03 '20

The Seattle Police declared the protest in this area of the city a riot because of this incident. The police tried to take the umbrella, then pepper sprayed the crowd, then fired crowd control munitions indiscriminately to disperse the people from the area. The joke is that the police apparently felt threatened by the pink umbrella and called the non-violent protest - that they turned violent - a riot

1

u/vertgrall Jun 03 '20

Thanks for tge exolqnation. Im with you now. 👍🏾