Seattle issues emergency order following mayhem

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6. I'm watching now on the local Seattle news.

It's one of those tense situations where an upset faction and an opportunistic faction end up yelling at the police, at one another, at the corporations, and though the point doesn't get lost it certainly seems to get diluted. People are yelling at one another and the Occupy people are surrounded by one barricade of bicycle cops and another of riot cops.

That said people are moving in the direction they want to be, and so far so good. Since some Occupy protesters have their faces covered as do potential Anarchists, it's pretty hard to tell who might be whom.

NOW the police are carrying a person bodily away, someone has been injured by a baton, and several more arrests have been made. Apparently a cop tried to take a flag away and the protester hit him, setting off a melee.