Seattle police arrested 23 left-wing protesters in Seattle over the weekend after violence broke out at a conservative Christian rally. But instead of condemning the left-wing protesters who instigated the unrest, Seattle Democrats and the corporate media are blaming the peaceful Christians who organized the event.
The rally, organized by Mayday USA as part of its “#DontMessWithOurKids” tour, was promoted as a family-friendly event featuring live music, prayer, and remarks from Christian leaders. About 500 people attended the event, which was held in the heart of Seattle’s heavily LGBTQ Capitol Hill neighborhood.
As reported in the New York Post, Mayday USA released a statement saying it refused “to stand idly by while the children of our nation are indoctrinated by a liberal, political, and sexual agenda that seeks to destroy their God-given identities.”
Organizers also made clear that they were not looking for confrontation. Mayday USA spokesperson and Wenatchee pastor Folake Kellogg said, “They say we don’t like people. We’re not the ones throwing things. We’re here to love Jesus.”
Kellogg said the group’s original request was to hold the event at Victor Steinbrueck Park, but the city denied them.
Counter-protesters gathered in equal numbers, waving transgender flags and carrying signs denouncing what they called “fascist family values.” The protest, dubbed “Keep Your Bibles Off Our Bodies,” was promoted by groups including Organized Workers for Labor Solidarity and the Freedom Socialist Party. Protest organizers claimed the Christian rally was a “well-funded anti-trans, anti-queer event led by far-right Christian activists,” and said its location in a “queer neighborhood” was meant to provoke.
Tensions escalated quickly. According to local news outlets, confrontations began around 1 p.m., with left-wing protesters shoving police in riot gear and pelting them with water bottles and other objects. Seattle police reported that eleven people were arrested in an initial scuffle, with more arrests made over the course of five hours as officers used pepper spray to control the crowd.
The police called in backup from Washington State Patrol as the situation escalated. By evening, Mayday USA began to break down their stage and advised attendees to leave in groups for safety.
In spite of the fact that the liberal protestors were the only violent party present at the event, Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell released a statement denouncing the Christian rally as a “far-right rally.” He further said it was “held here for this very reason – to provoke a reaction by promoting beliefs that are inherently opposed to our city’s values, in the heart of Seattle’s most prominent LGBTQ+ neighborhood.”
Harrell went on to say that “Anarchists infiltrated the counter-protestors group and inspired violence, prompting SPD to make arrests and ask organizers to shut down the event early, which they did.” There is no evidence that rogue “anarchists” were the ones who started attacking police.
Harrell also directed the Parks Department to review the event’s permit and promised a police after-action report, concluding, “Seattle will continue to stand unwavering in our embrace of diversity, love for our neighbors, and commitment to justice and fairness.”
In short, Harrell stands with violent left-wing rioters who attack police over peaceful, law-abiding Christian demonstrators.
The Seattle Times only added fuel to the mayor’s effort to smear the Christian attendees as far-right extremists. The headline of the paper’s cover story detailing the event read, “23 Arrests at Heated ‘Fascist Family Values’ Protest in Seattle.”
The legal advocacy group Alliance Defending Freedom is reportedly considering involvement as the aftermath of the event continues to unfold, according to the Daily Wire.
Russell Johnson, a pastor, wrote on X to call for a public apology and retraction of Harrell’s “bigoted statements about people of faith.”
“You attacked us in public and you will be held to account in public,” Johnson added. He also organized a rally outside City Hall on Tuesday, demanding an apology or Harrell’s resignation.
The Seattle Police Officers Guild also criticized city leaders for allowing the event to proceed in what they called “the heart of ANTIFA land,” a decision they say directly endangered both police and the public.
The guild highlighted the ongoing staffing crisis in Seattle’s police force, noting that over 700 officers have left the city in the past decade due to political decisions and activist pressure. They said the department currently lacks the resources to manage mass demonstrations that erupt into violence and mass arrests, warning that the city’s failure to provide adequate support and authority to officers puts lives at risk.
“Whether it’s our job or not, we were once again ordered to put ourselves into a political quagmire,” the guild said in a press release.
The union also pointed out that nearly 28 percent of Seattle’s remaining officers are eligible for retirement, raising concerns about the future of public safety if political leadership continues to undermine law enforcement. “This is Seattle’s public safety political reality,” the guild emphasized.
While welcoming the mayor’s review of the permit decision for the rally, the guild made clear that political decisions continue to place officers in “untenable” positions, forcing them to confront violent mobs without sufficient support or authority.
“Moving forward, the Seattle Police Department is hiring,” the guild said.
Sarah Katherine Sisk is a proud Hillsdale College alumna and a master’s student in economics at George Mason University. You can follow her on X @SKSisk76.
This is another of the many signs that Jesus stated in the Gospels where the persecution against the Christians and Jews would escalate as nations around the world are being strongly influenced by the Adversary as the End Times approach and the coming of Jesus draws nearer.
There is so much wrong with this area, there is no reliable description for it. “Antifa” land, attacking police officers, and a public figure criticizing a meeting in a public place, which had been allowed by permit. Would be so nice to go back in time, when there was real accountability for attacking a police officer. Also church meetings were also more respected, never a thought to any groups sexual proclivities, or even political persuasions.
My suggestions is that harsher punishments need to be had for anyone who would dare injure a police officer in his/her line of duty. Results would be forthcoming at once.
Christians are attacked physically, with words and lies. It shows how some Americans hate Christians and the values they stand for.
The disciples of Jesus were persecuted so we are not surprised today’s disciples of Jesus are being persecuted. Christianity has lasted for over 2000 years and it will continue to last.
For the left wingers the only free speech is what they say. They don’t allow free speech or first amendment rights for those with differing points of view. They are bullies and haters who think nothing about other people’s lives and property and will break the law to get their point across.
I am not religious, so I disagree with some (but not all) of their message, but they absolutely had a right to do this and it was the extremely intolerant, left loonies (I know loonies is redundant when you say the “left”) who were the problem. It is incredulous that the Mayor and media could try to spin it otherwise. That is like saying it is your fault if your car gets stolen because it is nice and tempted the thief.
Christians are easy to blame for everything, they turn another cheek. Media would not dare to blame the real culprit, when did they ever done that, spineless cowards.
always blame the othere side for what you are doing=leftist democrats
Rotten, radical liberals never do anything wrong. They are always right and we all should know that it is the evil MAGA people who always cause riots and destruction. Guess that is why under the “leadership” of the Biden administration cabal of unsavory characters our country was nearly destroyed. It is ridiculous that none of these lying, Satans are still roaming free instead of being locked up and prosecuted. They are traitors to Constitution!
I never would have thought that people as biased, incompetent and evil as this mayor would be elected to public office and then behave in this fashion. Things are worse than I thought!
The big picture here is the Mayor, Bruce Harrell knew full well what would happen. That is why he authorized the event to be at Cal Anderson Park. He does not support the Jewish Community also. Still has not condemned the Pro-Palestinian attack at the University of Washington Engineering building, protesters smashing brand new equipment donated by Boeing costing millions in damages. 30 arrested, back on the street the next day. One person atteresed was a former King County Public defender. Washington’s weak Governor Bob Ferguson didn’t comment about it for days after. Hes too busy scheming how to use taxpayers money to file lawsuits agaist Trump.Those arrested over the weekend are also out on the street. I read that FBI are now looking into this.
A liberal hellhole city within a leftist state.
Seattle is a city of Sodom and Gomorrah. It revels in its depravity and Liberalism. This travesty of reporting is Just like the misnomer “summer of love” when neighborhoods were held hostage and the press ran “cover” for the calamity.
Joseph Goebbels, Adolph Hitler’s minister of propaganda, used to say that if you told a lie, made it big and repeated it often enough, people would believe it, no matter how demonstrably false it is. Mayor Harrell and the counter-protesters accused the participants of the rally of “fascist family values.” It is claimed that fascism is part of the political right. Therefore, conservatives are automatically dubbed as fascists. The exact opposite is true. Fascism is, and always has been, part of the collectivist left, never the individualist right.
Can Mayor Harrell or any of the counter-protesters define what fascism really is? It is a variation and subset of totalitarian socialism. “Nazi” was short for National SOCIALIST German Workers’ Party. Hitler once said to Joseph Stalin, “A good Nazi will always make a good Bolshevist, and a good Bolshevist will always make a good Nazi. There is far more that unites our two systems, than that separates them.”
Here is the difference: in communism, the state claims title of ownership of everything. In fascism, there is supposed private ownership, but the state exercises so many controls – through laws, regulations, taxes, and subsidies – that it is the owner in fact, if not in name. In fascism, the state exercises the prerogatives and reaps the benefits of ownership, while the supposed private owners take all the risks and bear all the burdens.
“7. We demand that the State shall make it its primary duty to provide a livelihood for its citizens…
“10. It must be the first duty of every citizen to perform physical or mental work. The activities of the individual must not clash with the general interest, but must proceed within the framework of the community and be for the general good…
“13. We demand the nationalization of all businesses which have been formed into corporations (trusts).
“14. We demand profit-sharing in large industrial enterprises.
“15. We demand the extensive development of insurance for old age.
“16. We demand the creation and maintenance of a healthy middle class, the immediate communalizing of big department stores, and their lease at a cheap rate to small traders, and that the utmost consideration shall be shown to all small traders in the placing of State and municipal orders.”
These are not the policies of America’s founding fathers, Donald Trump, Sen. Ted Cruz, Sen. Mike Lee, Sen. Rand Paul, the House Freedom Caucus, the TEA (Taxed Enough Already) Party or the Make America Great Again (MAGA) movement. These are the policies of Barak Obama, Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi, Charles Schumer, Hakeem Jeffries, Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
Which group always advocates socialism, and votes for more taxes, more spending, more regulation, and less individual liberty? Those are the real American fascists. That tells you which side of the political spectrum fascism really falls on.
Seattle, and a few other places just like it will eventually collapse under its own weight of corruption, perversion and moral degradation! It cannot continue as it is for long!
How it works with Democrats: A person has a cross around her neck, and the Democrats riot. Democrats say it was Christians who caused the rioting, because a person was wearing a cross.
This was clearly a setup by the mayor and the city officials to cause a riot and blame the Christian groups. The park where this was held is supposedly a hotbed of liberal groups and the city refused the Christian group a permit for a different part, but suggested this one instead.
Seattle is a cesspool of mindless liberalism anyway. in the end these people will all answer to God for their actions; from the politicians down to the degenerates.
If I didn’t know better I would think that this was a joke.Jokes are supposed to be funny,this isn’t,it’s the way liberals do business.If you don’t agree with their distorted outlook on life,to them you are wrong.Well I have news for them,look in a mirror.
Christians are always at the forefront of violence! But seriously as usual the Democrats and the media are blaming conservatives and Christians for what they are already doing. I can’t believe how stupid both groups are. The media is so stupid they’re they’re too dumb to be embarrassed for their conduct. And you know why Democrat brains are so expensive don’t you? Do you know how many Democrats it takes to make a pound of brains? ????
That’s hard to understand isn’t it? They are blaming Christians for the problems and then they are the ones arrested, don’t figure does it? They are totally depraved of their minds these leftist whack jobs.
Seattle is a toilet and the Mayor is just one more chunk of fecal matter circling the bowl.
Apparently the authorities is try to control the narratives !, praying that this nonsense come to the ends!
Was that predictable or what??? It wasn’t Antifa’s fault that they (Antifa) came in their usual rioting, bullying way and the mayor sided with Antifa!?!? I understand Democrats less and less everyday!
Portland and Seatle are Hazardous Waste zones now.
The marines should go in and arrest all queers and LGBTQRDK freeks and all transgenders nutcases and deport them all to CHINA they love their kind over there.
You guys hate gay people, so you deserve to be peacefully protested against, are you kidding? Jesus would treat you like he treated the money hangers. Love thy neighbor NOT Love only heterosexual neighbors
Geez. Another article title might be “Media, Republicans Blame Pride Parade for Right-Wing Violence at Coeur d’Alene Rally.” That occurred in Idaho, where 31 White nationalists were arrested. Violence shouldn’t be tolerated by either side.