Seattle police and demonstrators clash — authorities say protestors threw rocks, bottles, fireworks and explosives at officers DMT.NEWS

SEATTLE (AP) — Seattle police declared a riot Saturday following large demonstrations in the city’s Capitol Hill neighborhood and deployed flash bangs and pepper spray to try to clear an area near where weeks earlier people had set up an “occupied protest zone” that stretched for several blocks. Via Twitter TWTR, -2.34%, police said they had made more than two dozen arrests for assault on officers, obstruction and failure to disperse. They also said they were “investigating a possible explosive damage” to the walls of the city’s East Precinct police station. Authorities said rocks, bottles,...

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