{"id":10409,"date":"2013-06-17T17:13:59","date_gmt":"2013-06-18T00:13:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/?p=10409"},"modified":"2013-06-17T17:14:02","modified_gmt":"2013-06-18T00:14:02","slug":"looking-back-2012-seattle-may-day-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/looking-back-2012-seattle-may-day-violence\/","title":{"rendered":"Looking Back: 2012 Seattle May Day Violence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A KING 5 News photographer covering the May Day march in downtown Seattle on Tuesday was assaulted by one of the marchers and ended up with a bloody cheek.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Black bloc\" src=\"http:\/\/images.ctv.ca\/archives\/CTVNews\/img2\/20100626\/416_CP24_blackbloc_100626.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Richard Departee was covering the march as the participants made their way through downtown.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI found myself in with a group (dressed in) black, kinda Gestapo-looking thugs \u2013 face masks and dark glasses \u2013 I think as soon as they saw me it was like \u2018Hey get out of here, you know, scum,\u2019 and started pushing me,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Departee said he backed off and then three or four of the people turned around and surrounded him and shoved him back.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThen one guy took his one-inch dowel, a wooden pole with the red flag \u2026 he just took it back and popped me in the face,\u201d said Departee.<\/p>\n<p>He said he dropped his camera but then later decided to take pictures because there were about 20 people.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe same thing happened,\u201d said Departee. \u201cThey came swinging their poles again at me and that time I bolted.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Departee has worked at KING TV for more than 30 years.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Gestapo-looking\" src=\"http:\/\/www.inlumino.com\/blog\/images\/kkk_rally_officers01.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A KING 5 News photographer covering the May Day march in downtown Seattle on Tuesday was assaulted by one of the marchers and ended up with a bloody cheek. Richard Departee was covering the march as the participants made their &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/looking-back-2012-seattle-may-day-violence\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10409"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10411,"href":"http:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10409\/revisions\/10411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}