Organizer of peaceful protest in Seattle reacts to looting, riots downtown

Andre' Taylor, co-founder of Not This Time!, shares a message after a peaceful protest in downtown Seattle turned violent Saturday afternoon.

[stefyroxanne]

I like how the 'peaceful' protestors don't wanna be dragged into the blame for the looters and rioters, but they have no problem blaming all cops for the death of one man.

[rahulbosebose]

These folks asking police to be held accountable. How sbout your accountability for all the looting?

[TheCodedtestament]

The opportunist are taking advantage of an individual being brutalized by the police for their own lust.

[frawldog]

So he isn’t against the riots? Not against looting. How can you not speak out against shameful criminals acts

[juhall]

I notice Andre Taylor did NOT lead by condemning the looting and

[larrydakin]

Hold politicians in this state accountable for conditions that allowed the riots to happen political correctness is a disease

[huahua]

Well said! Our leaders! What leadership are these cities currently controlled under? Better question, if the current leadership has resulted in rioting, should we look to those leaders? Or find new leadership?

[philp]

I was out there last night. The rioters where definitely organized and knew what they where doing. They had propositioned medical supplies and bottles of milk throughout the Westlake area

[sallyhanley]

We all
Have the right to peacefully
Protest! Not loot!!

[northernbrother]

Seeing what was happening in the rest of the country, it was irresponsible to organize a protest in Seattle because there was zero chance that it would be peaceful.

[IrulkaDeBond]

NOW is you should organize your people to clean up the mess you create on the street and pay for damaged

[MKobe_]

He should be talking from streets of Seattle while cleaning up not behind the computer screens .. mcheew!

[SinnerJ]

Once the looting and the violence took place, your "message" was thrown out the window. The city has forsaken the innocent bystanders, so it'll be up to them to take their own stand against the criminals. We'll also be practicing our rights to defend ourselves.

[charlesxchaves]

If they did not start a protest the looters would not have a scapegoat for their thievery

[stormychk]

I was there. The frontline was nothing but peaceful. The protest was nothing but peaceful. The amount of people who took advantage of the situation was small but they did damage.

[davidkolpack]

all that'll be remembered is that half the nation has been razed for several months over a black guy with possession of narcotics suffocated by a cop.

[KurlandHickory]

He didn’t even talk about the looting. Instead he reminds us to push forward and ignore the detractors...sounds like something out of Maoist China.

[BrianHolmes]

Chaos is countered by order, not created by it.

[zahnoh]

where's the rest of the interview? the part where he said, to let the police deal with the riot and looting, they were their responsibility...that message needs to conveyed as well....

[thgearfreak]

People were paid for doing this stuff there was a listing to get paid money to organize these events and destroy as much as they could.