Officer injured in protest at the port

UPDATED:

Demonstrators gathered this afternoon and into the evening on Harbor Island near Terminal 5 at the Port of Seattle where one officer was injured, according to Seattle Police. Demonstrators subsequently blocked vehicular traffic?at Harbor Island and began throwing lit flares, bags of bricks and paint, rebar and other debris at the police officers and police horses monitoring the demonstration.

At least one officer was injured after being struck in the face with a bag?of paint.? The officer was treated at the scene by Seattle Fire Department medics and did not require transportation.

Eleven adult subjects were arrested for various violations including Failure to Disperse and Assaulting an Officer.? Those subjects will be booked into the King County Jail.

At 3 p.m., protestors marched from Westlake Center down to the Port of Seattle where they planned to promote the rights of workers.

The protesters were to walk to the port at 3 p.m. and then at 6 p.m., head to the Spokane Street fishing area. Their message:

• Solidarity with immigrant port truckers in Seattle and LA who are exploited by SSA, owned by Goldman Sachs.? Stop discrimination, unsafe conditions, and poverty wages.
• Send a warning to multinational grain company EGT, which is trying to bust the ILWU in Longview, WA. We act independently of the ILWU but we are in solidarity.
• Against police repression and evictions of occupations. A coordinated response to their coordinated attacks.? Occupy everything!
• Against austerity! They say cut back, we say fight back. If they cut the working class, we will cut their profits by stopping trade.

There was no word whether protesters reached Magnolia?s Pier 91, but the Port took no chances and beefed up security throughout Port properties. The Port says that dock workers ?must be able to do their jobs,? and the Port of Seattle Police Department and other staff members are working with the City of Seattle, the Seattle Police Department, the U.S. Coast Guard and the U.S. Customs and Border Protection to make sure all port facilities remain open.

Waterfront protests were planned in several coastal cities in the U.S. as are blockades of Walmart distribution centers in Salt Lake City and Denver.