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What follows is a nonexhaustive review of some of our regions experience with violent protests or clashes. Some have arguably yielded positive results, while others reflect tragedy, human cruelty and senseless destruction. Many of societys faults and fault lines featured here remain intact. The violence gets attention, and today it is being exposed, broadcast and tweeted as never before. The smartphone is now an essential part of protest documentation. The historical record is another window that can provide context and background for what we are seeing today.The followingis offered in that spirit.Race riotsViolent removals of Chinese residents in Tacoma and SeattleIn 1885, the mayor of Tacoma, Jacob Weisbach, led a regional effort to exclude all Chinese immigrants from Western Washington, an effort largely planned during a regional anti-Chinese meeting in Seattle. Tacoma ordered the Chinese population out of town and rounded up hundreds who did not obey. A mob armed with clubs and guns abused them, force-marched them to a train, then razed and burned their homes and businesses. The effort, led by the citys civic leaders, was so cruel and efficient that such tactics became known as the Tacoma method.In 1886, Seattle tried to do the same. Inspired by the murder of Chinese hop pickers in Issaquah and stirred by the Knights of Labor, who wanted the Chinese expelled for supposedly taking jobs from whites, a large mob brutally herded the majority of the citys Chinese residents to a wharf, where they were to be placed on a steamship bound for San Francisco. One hundred or so Chinese residents were not able to get onboard and, under protection of a phalanx of Seattle Home Guards, were escorted back toward Chinatown, but they were confronted on the way by an angry white mob. They fought with fists and clubs until finally the guards fired their rifles into the crowd, killing one rioter and injuring several more. Martial law was declared, U.S Army troops were called in to patrol the city. The soldiers remained for months to ensure calm, but only a small Chinese population remained in Seattle following the violent expulsion.Anti-Chinese sentiment had been festering on the West Coast for years. They were targets of the Ku Klux Klan in California and Oregon going back to the late 1860s, but it was the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act that fueled the forced removal. Signed by President Chester A. Arthur, the racist law outlawed immigration of Chinese laborers. Thousands of records of Chinese immigrants from that era are stored in the federal archives at Sand Point in Seattle. The Trump administration has slated the archives facility to be closed and its contents removed, but much of that history is being recovered by volunteer researchers.Soldiers vs. prisoners of war at Fort LawtonIn 1944, Black soldiers stationed at Fort Lawton, now part of Discovery Park, were upset that Italian prisoners of war held there received more privileges than Black soldiers because the prisoners were white, even though they were enemies at war with the United States. A riot broke out perhaps one stoked by white military police officers and dozens were hurt, including an Italian POW who was lynched. Over 40 Black soldiers were charged with riot or manslaughter and court martialed, despite a lack of evidence. That railroading resulted in 28 soldiers being convicted and sentenced to hard labor, and ultimately dishonorably discharged. Research into the case by Seattle author Jack Hamann helped uncover and correct the injustice of unfair charges, secret trials and a military cover-up. It remains unknown who lynched the Italian prisoner, but white soldiers were also suspected, though not charged. The convicted soldiers were formally acquitted in 2008, and the Army issued an apology in a formal ceremony. Unfortunately, only two of the men were still living by the time they were acquitted.The aftermath of Martin Luther King Jr.s assassinationIn the spring of 1968, Dr. Marin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated. Mourning was widespread nationally, and in Seattle vigils were held across the city. A wave of social unrest ensued, including violent protests. One positive outcome here was that the city of Seattle finally overcame local resistance to open housing, allowing people of any race to buy or rent property in the city. The policy had been put to a vote in 1964 and, disturbingly, lost by a 2-to-1 margin. But motivated by the potential for greater unrest and under mounting pressure from civil rights activists in the Black community, the city council finally passed it into law three weeks after Kings death. Shortly before Kings murder, there was a peaceful sit-in at Franklin High School in South Seattle protesting the treatment of Black students. It was the first of its kind in a city high school. The day King died, that April, some of the Franklin sit-in activists were arrested for unlawful assembly and accused of inciting riot. The student demonstrators, who included Larry Gossett, Aaron Dixon and Carl Miller, were imprisoned and forced to stand trial. In July, they were convicted and sentenced to six months in jail for a gross misdemeanor a sentence that was clearly a gross injustice. Outrage triggered two days of rock throwing, lootings and overturned cars in the Central District. Police responded with tear gas. Central District leaders, including the Black Panthers, attempted to restore order. Later that month, violence erupted again when Seattle police raided the Black Panther offices. The anger of that summer stemmed from the chronic, systemic mistreatment of Black people by the police and justice system. Protests over injustice and the treatment of the Black community continued. Franklin High School sit-in defendants at King County jail, April 1968. From left to right: Aaron Dixon, Larry Gossett, Carl Miller, and an unidentified Black Panther Party. MOHAI Rodney King riots of 1992In May 1992, a jury acquitted four Los Angeles police officers of beating unarmed Rodney King. The vicious incident was caught on video by a private citizen who lived nearby. It was later broadcast on local TV and went viral. The verdict caused major rioting in LA, but also disturbances in Seattle, where protesters and anarchists set fires, threw rocks and trashed parts of downtown and Capitol Hill. This would not be the last time an injustice against African Americans would motivate such an event.Labor riotsPotlatch mayhem of 1913In 1913, Seattle marked its annual civic festival, the Golden Potlatch, in which white businessmen appropriated Northwest First Nations attire to celebrate the city, its industry and its imperial domain extending to Alaska. A woman named Annie Miller took to Occidental Avenue, in Pioneer Square, to advocate for womens suffrage. Accounts vary, but she may or may not have talked about socialism, or disparaged the military. She was not an Industrial Workers of the World union rabble-rouser, as the press claimed. A drunken sailor apparently objected to her speech and grabbed or assaulted her. A spectator defended Miller, a fistfight followed and more sailors and soldiers joined in, resulting in an all-out brawl over political speech. The local papers fanned the flames, especially The Seattle Daily Times, whose publisher, Alden Blethen, claimed a left-wing revolution was at hand, and the coverage fomented further violence. The following night, rioters by the hundreds, perhaps thousands, many of them military personnel, continued to terrorize the streets, destroying the headquarters of the IWW and ransacking the offices of local socialists. The progressive mayor, George Cotterill, outraged by the Timess inflammatory coverage, sent the police to stop the newspapers publication. A writer for a Seattle socialist paper described Blethen as an aged lunatic tottering toward a mad house of bedlam and energetic fur, lashing himself with his wild imaginings and stinging himself to death with the noisome venom of his own hate. Nevertheless, a judge overruled Cotterill and the presses rolled. Martial law was declared and the rioting quelled. A crowd of men and a few boys look over the ruined interior of the Socialist Party headquarters, on the first floor of a building at 1909 Fifth Avenue, July 18, 1913. Asahel Curtis/Washington State Historical Society The Everett Massacre of 1916A strike against Everetts shingle mills raised tensions in the City of Smokestacks in 1916. The strike was settled, but one mill held out and members of the radical Industrial Workers of the World lent their support to the workers. The city had outlawed public speaking about socialism, so the Wobblies wanted to make a protest point. Two steamers full of activists headed to Everett, but the Snohomish County sheriff and an armed deputized posse met the first. Someone fired a shot, then the workers standing on the deck of the boat exchanged gunfire with those on the dock. The gunfight left two deputies dead and 20 sheriffs men wounded. At least five Wobblies were killed, perhaps as many as a dozen, and 27 were wounded. Seventy-four Wobblies were arrested when they arrived back in Seattle, but only one was charged with murder he was later acquitted. The governor summoned the National Guard to both cities to quiet things down. The composer Wayne Horvitz later wrote an opera about the massacre, which he called, Smokestack Arias.The 1919 Centralia TragedyA violent clash between American Legionnaires and Wobblies occurred in Centralia in 1919 on the first anniversary of the World War I armistice. The Industrial Workers of the World was active in the mills and lumber camps in the area. The unions headquarters in town had been shut down by locals, but they reopened. A parade of Legionnaires stopped in front of its offices in an old hotel, at which point some in the parade broke ranks and charged the Wobblies hangout. Shooting started. The armed IWW members claimed self-defense, while the marchers claimed they were ambushed. Four Legionnaires were killed, a Wobbly was lynched, and the rest were rounded up and tried for murder. Many were convicted on slim evidence in an unfair trial and given lengthy sentences. The lynch mob was never brought to justice.An anarchist bomb goes offBy the spring of 1919, Seattle Mayor Ole Hanson had steered the city through the Spanish flu pandemic and the Seattle General Strike, which was a peaceful shutdown of the entire city. There was no rioting or violence, but Hanson exaggerated the threat of Bolshevism. He became a national hero for standing up to the so-called Red menace, as people feared that general strikes would proliferate around the country and Russian-style revolution would follow. It did not. But that publicity seems to have had a downside for Hanson. In April, his office received a package. Hanson was out of town and his secretary opened it upside down inside was a bomb that did not explode. Its arrival had been timed for May Day. An anarchist group had sent bombs to dozens of prominent Americans politicians, businessmen and law enforcement officials. Some months later, Hanson resigned from office to travel the country to enjoy a heady and lucrative 15 minutes of fame as a hero of anti-communism. He later moved to California.Communist bashing on Skid RoadThe Great Depression saw lots of social unrest, demonstrations and crackdowns on radicals and the unemployed. Many jobless workers turned to radical groups for solutions. A painting of an incident, dated May 1, 1930, epitomizes the era. It shows police attacking a crowd of communist demonstrators at the corner of Occidental Avenue and Washington Street, in the heart of Skid Road. Police on horseback seem to be brutally breaking up a gathering using nightsticks and trampling demonstrators. The painter was a man named Ronald Debs Ray Ginther, who grew up in a radical family his middle name was for Socialist Eugene Debs and who documented life during the Depression, including police harassment and Hooverville, according to University of Washington history professor James Gregory. His paintings were based on what he witnessed, though some were not painted until decades later. I couldnt find press accounts of a May 1 event that year, but a short article in The Seattle Times a couple of months earlier, in March 1930, has all the features portrayed here. A parade of 200 communists marched at noon, attracting some 5,000 spectators. The parade had hardly gone 50 feet before squads of mounted patrolmen, motorcycle men and officers swinging nightsticks broke it up, the paper reported. Twelve men were arrested in the bloody brouhaha. Cracking down on Reds, labor groups, the homeless and the jobless was almost routine for the police and authorities during the Depression in Seattle. Artist Ronald D. Ginthers 1930 watercolor and ink painting captures a bloody riot on Skid Road at the corner of Occidental and Washington streets in Seattle. Ronald D. Ginther/Washington State Historical Society The waterfront riots of 1934A massive, 83-day strike of West Coast longshoremen was called in the summer of 1934 and accompanied by violence in cities including San Francisco, Tacoma and Seattle. It is sometimes referred to as the War on the Docks. Fights took place between union members and replacement workers also known as scabs who were forced to run a gauntlet while strikers brutally beat them from either side. Crowds of teamsters and longshoremen also attacked scabs and strikebreakers in downtown using brass knuckles and two-by-fours. A company guard on one of the Elliott Bay piers shot and killed a striker. Newsreel footage of a riot in Tacoma has eerie similarities to images of todays demonstrations, as union members threw back canisters of tear gas tossed by heavily armed police. This short film is worth watching. The strike brought shipping to a standstill only one vessel managed to leave the Port of Seattle during the entire strike. A major battle occurred at Smith Cove, near the Magnolia Bridge, where strikers and police clashed. The police used mounted officers who were said to charge like cavalry with clubs and gas masks to run down strikers. The strike was eventually settled in arbitration.When protests turned violentAnti-war demonstrationsSeattle was a hotbed of opposition to the Vietnam War. Historian and Historylink.org co-founder Walt Crowley wrote in his memoir of the 60s, Rites of Passage, that Seattle ended the year 1969 with the dubious distinction of being the nations bombing capital, with some 69 explosions or arson fires. Though not all were politically motivated, many were. Anger boiled over again in May 1970 after the U.S. invasion of Cambodia, the killing of student protesters at Kent State in Ohio and, shortly after, the gunning down of students at Jackson State in Mississippi whose only crime was being Black. On May 1, some 1,000 demonstrators protested downtown, and an ROTC building on the University of Washington campus was vandalized. Other campus fires ensued. Students called for a strike, and 7,000 of them poured onto Interstate 5, moving from the University District toward downtown, blocking the freeway and infuriating drivers. The next day, 10,000 students blocked I-5 again and police fired tear gas. Over the next few days students were beaten in the U District by vigilantes, 15,000 marched on downtown and ongoing acts of vandalism, disruption and sabotage continued at the university. Crowleys book provides an extensive timeline of Seattle anti-war activity in this period and how it tracked with national events.Turtles and Teamsters at the 1999 WTO protestsIn November 1999, the World Trade Organization brought its major ministerial conference to Seattle, a pro-trade city. But for at least a year in advance, labor, environmental and other activists planned to use the occasion to shut down the WTO meeting through direct action to protest corporate globalization. Tens of thousands of protesters turned out along with thousands of delegates, government officials and representatives of worldwide nongovernmental organizations, or NGOs. On Nov. 30, marchers some 40,000 to 60,000 clogged downtown Seattle, gridlocking the city and leading to the successful shut down of the conference. At one point, drums filled the air, an anarchist marching band played and protesters carried huge paper puppets on their shoulders, while other dressed as endangered sea turtles, giving the protest a Woodstock charm. Then, the Seattle police decided to get tough and fired pepper gas and rubber pellets into a crowd blocking the intersection at Sixth Avenue and Union Street. Black-clad anarchists suddenly turned to smashing windows and setting dumpster fires. So began the so-called Battle of Seattle it even spawned a Hollywood movie by the name. Downtown was shut down, a state of emergency was declared, the National Guard was called in and arrests were made. In terms of size, it was the biggest mass protest in Seattle history, and burnished the citys reputation as a radical town, despite the prosperity it received from trade. The protest turned into a weeklong series of clashes between demonstrators and the police. Some anniversaries of the protests have repeated confrontations on a smaller scale. Protesters wave signs and shout slogans against the World Trade Organization, during a WTO meeting in Seattle, November 30, 1999. George P. Hickey/Washington State Historical Society Annual May Day parades Much of the anarchist energy of the Battle of Seattle was transferred into the next century, with annual parades and protests increasingly taken over by black-clad protesters intent on mayhem. It has now become a yearly event in which parades of progressives, union supporters and immigrant and social justice advocates are often overshadowed by media coverage of anarchist vandalism, property destruction and street battles with police. Eli Sanders of The Stranger wrote a piece about the evolution of May Day since 2012 that gives a good picture of what it has become.Yiannopoulos madnessIn 2017, a year into Donald Trumps presidency, a University of Washington Republican group invited a conservative provocateur and darling of the so-called alt-right, Milo Yiannopoulos, to speak at on campus. Yiannopoulos was a former editor of the right-wing website Breitbart. Protesters, including antifa, and others massed outside Kane Hall in Red Square, with crowds of Yiannopoulos supporters. Sparks flew, pushing and shoving and mini-melees occurred. Despite extensive police presence, an anti-fascist demonstrator was shot in an altercation with a conservative couple outside the venue. They claimed self-defense.Youth riotsAlki Beach riot of 1969Sometimes riots occur after sports events, parties or public events, or for no clear reason. Sometimes, people drink too much and decide to blow off steam. On Aug. 11, 1969, a disturbance occurred at a rock concert at Alki Beach in West Seattle, which escalated when people claimed police harassment. A Seattle Police Department vehicle was set ablaze as officers arrested two men drinking beer in the park. Hundreds in a crowd of some 2,000 youths brawled with police, who fought with clubs and gas that made people sick. Rocks were thrown and arrests were made in the three-hour fight. Complaints poured in over excessive force used by police, including the indiscriminate use of gas. Some canisters were fired into neighboring homes and groups of innocent bystanders.Eruption on The AveRight after the Alki blowup of 1969, the University District erupted over the course of two nights when hippies and teens ran wild in the streets, looting shops and fighting with cops. At one point a group of theatergoers, exiting a performance of a Shakespeare play, was engulfed in the wild scene, creating more chaos and confusion. Some rioters were angry with police harassment over drug use and possession in the U District. Rebellion against authority seemed to be a theme. Police said some of the same youths from Alki also rioted on the Ave. Among the arrest charges were littering, resisting arrest and using foul language. The riots became an issue in the mayors race, with Democrat Wes Uhlman urging full prosecution of ringleaders and Republican Ludlow Kramer advocating the creation of new youth programs.Mardi Gras mayhem of 2001A worse event, because it took a life, was the Mardi Gras riots in February 2001 in Pioneer Square. Some 2,000 partiers were out of control on Saturday, the first night of celebrations, throwing rocks and tussling with police. A bigger and more unruly crowd on Fat Tuesday took over Pioneer Square some 4,000 revelers and 350 police. Again the crowd got out of control, people were assaulted, rocks and bottles thrown, cars overturned, windows broken, and businesses vandalized and looted heres some graphic footage. A young man, Kristopher Kime, tried to rescue a woman in the melee and was beaten to death. The police broke it up with tear gas and batons. Scores were injured before the police took charge. They were criticized for not intervening in the riot sooner.This is by no means a comprehensive list of violent demonstrations, protest and riots, and it leaves out scores of systemic violence that occurred throughout the 19th and 20th century. This history is meant to look at moments during the regions urban era when the streets exploded in violence and destruction for a variety of reasons and causes.Blackpast.org, based in Seattle, is an excellent resource on African American history. For those interested in deep-diving on the history of race riots, for example, it offers a timeline that includes links to its articles on American events dating back to the 1600s. The website, founded by the University of Washington professor Quintard Taylor, covers the Pacific Northwest extensively, but is also international in scope. It is an invaluable resource, especially in these times.I also want to acknowledge the great work done by Seattles Historylink.org, which covers so much Northwest history so well, and the University of Washington, whose scholars and students have contributed much needed scholarship about our labor and civil rights history. The online resources of the Seattle Public Library are also a tremendous help for researchers. Finally,I want to shout out the the digital archives of the Washington State Historical Society, which allows free access to the public and provided some of the remarkable historic photographs, as did the digital collection of the Museum of History and Industry.These are just a few of the excellent resources that preserve and communicate our history, and which I have used in compiling parts of this article.Full disclosure: I have donated money to Blackpast, Historylink, the Seattle Library Foundation, and MOHAI, and am a member of the Washington State Historical Society Topics: Crime, History, Labor, Law & Justice, Media, Pacific Northwest, Race, Seattle & King County, Washington State

In the meantime, Lonergan-Dreke has spent countless hours helping those laid off workers apply for unemployment, sending letters and checking in with them over the phone.Sometimes it has seemed futile, as many of those laid ofhave struggled to get their benefits. One such employee, Jackie Cooke, was erroneously rejected from unemployment multiple times before finally receiving it and recentlyhas had payments halted once again.That has been horrendous, Longergan-Dreke said. The problems with unemployment,combined with record unemployment rates in Washington, give hera particularly alarming incentive to reopen.Like many small business owners, Longergan-Dreke is eager to put her workers back on her payroll, but at the same time she wonders how she can be sure she can afford to keep them.Why would we want to take someone off unemployment, have them receive PPP moneyand then in two months lay them off so they have to go through that nightmare again she said.An extinction-level eventThe state-ordered shutdowns willinevitablychange what business looks like after reopening. That transformation has already begun.The Main Street Alliance reports a quarter of the nations small businesses are in danger of permanent closure in the next five months.This is an extinction-level event for small businesses, said Amanda Ballantyne, the small business networks national director. She cited a failure in federal policy to create long-term solutions as one reason businesses are in this predicament PPP loans, for example, provide funding only for eight weeks.Tiffany Turner, owner of the regional hotel, inn and restaurant chain Adrift Hospitality, said that severely impacted businesses like hers will require long-term solutions to recover. Although some locations she owns were able to open recently, like one in Pacific County and another in Oregon, eathey arent anywhere near normal capacity and will likely be unable to reach those levels with current restrictions in place for the foreseeable future.This is not an eight-week issue in our economy, she said. There needs to be a much more certain fix.Since the coronavirus outbreak began, lawmakers have attempted to respond to the growing need for financial aid to businesses. In late March, the federal CARES Act established a pool of loans for businesses and tax credits, deferrals and deductions that would allow employers to hold on to the money they made.But those solutions were limited in scope. Now, with reopening dates in sight, Congress is considering a number of new proposals that would help businesses nationwide plan beyond a few weeks or months in recovery.Washingtons representatives and senators are focused on getting businesses the money they need to rehire and keep their employees, which would also would allow the workers to regain health insurance. Keeping those workers requires a stable source of funds, since employers need to know that theyll be able to pay them, and a lot of flexibility as businesses work to rehire staff in batches.Some have focused on reforming the PPP loan program after seeing inequities in its distribution. U.S. Rep. Suzan DelBene, D-Medina, wants to expand the CARES Acts payroll tax credit.That provision was designed to encourage employers to keep workers on their payroll by offering a refundable tax credit equal to 50 of up to $10,000 of an employees wages, so $5,000 per person. But originally, employers couldnt get the tax credit alongside a PPP loan. DelBenes proposal would change that, upping the credit to equal 80 of $15,000, allowing employers to receive up to $45,000 a year alongside other loans. DelBene says its a reliable solution, especially becauseuses preexisting relationships between the Internal Revenue Service and businesses.U.S. Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D-Seattle, has proposed thePaycheck Recovery Act, which would cover employee salaries up to $90,000, allowing employers to keep workers on a payroll even if the business hasnt reopened.The act follows the lead of relief legislation in countries like South Korea and the United Kingdom, which are giving businesses direct governmental support rather than requiring them to go through banks, as loans through the PPP do. Chris Evans, Jayapals communications director, said grants under the act could be renewed beyond the years end, possibly giving businesses more certainty in the future.The Woodland Park Zoo, which spends $2.5 million each month on upkeep and has received a PPP loan, has voiced support for Jayapals initiative. Its CEO, Alejandro Grajal, said theres little room to cut back on costsas many employees provide necessary care for the zoos animals. Hes concerned about thebudget going into next year. Regardless of any help the zoo has received or willreceive,2021 is looking very scary financially, he said,as the zoo has used savings from previous years to stay afloat.Were burning through cash, he said. The zoo will have to resize their budget in 2021, no matter what.In other relief legislation, U.S. Rep. Denny Heck, D-Olympia, has proposed $100 billion in emergency rental assistance. U.S. Rep. Derek Kilmer, D-Gig Harbor, is co-sponsoring a bill that would give Americans a job skills training credit of $4,000.Reopening day A reopening date for businesses has been elusive and frequently delayed since the pandemic began, but it now looks like it maysoon become a reality for parts of Washington. Some counties have already allowed certain businesses to reopen with restrictions some of Turners Adrift Hospitality locations have been approved to start receiving a limited number of guests but others, like two of Lonergan-Drekes Italian restaurants in Snohomish County, are still on hold.In the meantime, Cooke, the laid-off Lombardis employee,has been able to snag a few hours at the restaurantto assist with takeout, although she still hopes to receive the partial unemployment benefits shes eligible for. She said shes taking whatever she can get.Lonergan-Dreke said that shes been ready to reopen Lombardis since receiving a guideline for health protocols from the Washington Department of Health in mid-May. Shes anxiousto use up her PPP loan as well since she received it in mid-April, her time to use it runs out sometime in June unless Congress decides to expand the number of weeks beyond the eight that shes allowed to use those funds.Snohomish County has applied for approval to move on to Phase 2 of reopening and expects to hear back soon from state government. As they wait, Lonergan-Dreke and her staff have started updating their website to reflect new safety protocols at Lombardis and continue to prepare for a reopening day.With small businesses around the state closing permanently due to lost revenue, Lonergan-Dreke is hoping for good news someday soon.Its just carnage whats going on with small business, she said. Every day that were forced to stay closed is another day that a small business dies. Topics: Business, Changing Region, Coronavirus

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Demonstrators filled the streets in cities around the world Saturday, staging some of the largest and most peaceful protests against racism since a 46-year-old black man, George Floyd, was killed on Memorial Day after a Minneapolis police officer knelt on his neck. People marched in Washington, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, London, Berlin, Paris, Sydney and elsewhere,